Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countries agreed in principle to merge into one state with a single military command and the Syrian and Iraqi heads of state will meet next week to discuss details, the report said...
...more important than this modest support were the signs of growing cohesion among the Arab states that oppose Sadat. As a prelude to this week's Arab summit in Baghdad called by Iraq to counter the Camp David accords, Syrian President Hafez Assad flew to the Iraqi capital for a reconciliation with President Ahmed Hassan Bakr. Syria and Iraq have been enemies for years, largely because their governments are run by feuding branches of the Baath (resurrection) party, a pan-Arab movement founded some 40 years ago. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council holds the hard-line view that...
...Israeli pre-emptive strike. Iraq is the Arab world's second largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit Iraqi troops to move into Syria "whenever they are needed...
...OAPEC spokesmen argued that a sizable increase was warranted because "persistent erosion" of the dollar and inflation in the developed countries had cut the real price of a liquid barrel of oil almost by half since 1973. Some other delegates also stressed Arab pique at the Camp David agreement. Iraqi Oil Minister Tayeh Abdul-Karim blasted it as "a policy of surrender" and made clear that he thought the Saudi policy of "moderation" on oil prices had done nothing to advance the Arab cause in the Middle East peace negotiations. Saudi Representative Abdul Hadi Taher replied bluntly that Middle East...
...liberation groups have been so busy fighting each other that lately the Jewish state has gone virtually unscathed. Since July, factional bloodletting has left 60 dead and more than 100 wounded, including the victims of a savage Mafia-style war raging between Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and Iraqi-backed Palestinian agents in capitals across Europe and Asia. Early last week, a powerful explosion ripped through an eight-story apartment and office building in Beirut, killing more than 175 Palestinians and wounding 80 others. Among the dead: 37 members of the pro-Iraqi Palestine Liberation Front (P.L.F...