Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 9--Iraqi rebels claimed tonight that they held the oilrich north, under air attack, and were fanning out over Iraq from Mosul. The government claimed the rebel uprising was destroyed by bombers and troops of Premier Abdel Kassem's Baghdad regime...
...tour of Kiev and Leningrad, Khrushchev, who had promised to accompany him, excused himself on the transparently dishonest grounds that he had a toothache. Gromyko, not even admitting to a toothache, begged off too. Within a few hours of Macmillan's departure for Kiev, Khrushchev was receiving an Iraqi government delegation-lending further farce to what the offended London press called "the toothache snub...
...Ambassador Nikolai Pegov. Khrushchev centered all his abuse on the Shah and the Shah alone. "He fears not us but his own people," roared Nikita. "He will not succeed by a bilateral pact or even a quinquelateral pact in saving his rotten throne from the fate of the rotten Iraqi throne...
Last week, a century later, the Anglo-Egyptian agreement to let Suez bygones be bygones was being held up largely because of the claims of one Iraqi-born Jewish British subject to property in Egypt. This time, far from boasting of its readiness to defend each and every subject of the crown, Britain's Treasury spokesman insisted: "We have never, never said the name of Smouha...
...tussle with domestic Arab nationalists who favor one big Arab nation, he had won the first round. But so had his Communist allies. The sole political party left in Premier Kassem's Cabinet is now the Communist-backed National Democrats. The leading pro-Communist among the Iraqi Cabinet ministers announced that he was off this week for Moscow to work out details of the new economic deal, which would put Western oil royalties to work on a development program in which Communist advisers will have the most...