Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More Slaves. In town after town, Iraqi villagers slit the throats of fatted animals to honor the visiting King. He opened the first 16 miles (Baghdad to Al Mahmudiya) of a projected 1,250-mile roadbuilding program; he dedicated a $12 million, 25,000-spindle textile plant at Mosul, Iraq's second city, which under the program was also receiving a sugar factory, a bridge, a housing project and a new vocational-training school. On a 148,000-acre tract 20 miles from the site of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre...
...East's internal problems. One day Israel got out of Gaza and the Aqaba Gulf positions, and the blue-helmeted soldiers of the U.N. Emergency Force moved in. Another day Syria agreed to start repairing oil pipelines sabotaged during the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, through which Iraqi oil can be pumped to Mediterranean ports en route to Europe. Even Nasser's Egypt, still dickering on complexities like who pays what Suez Canal tolls to whom, was ready to allow removal of the last blockships and the waterway could be cleared within the month (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague. Early this month, during Serraj's show trial of 47 pro-Western Syrians charged with participation in an "Iraqi plot," the prosecutor again called for the death sentence on Jedid. To the angry Lebanese, whose relations with Syria were already tense, it was insultingly clear that the Syrian government had carried out the execution of Ghassan Jedid in the capital of Lebanon...
Since the Suez invasion, Iraqi, Syrian and Saudi Arabian troops have moved into Jordan to "protect" it; the Syrians and Saudis are still there. The Israelis watch edgily from across a 330-mile border, and at some future date might not mind advancing to the Jordan River, a natural frontier some 30 miles east from the present boundary, if they thought they could get away with it. The unceasing Arab nationalist agitation among Jordan's large Palestinian refugee population has moved young King Hussein to offer to give up his throne if that would advance the cause of Arab...
Syria lost a fifth of its revenues ($20 million a year) by its pro-Nasser gesture of blowing up the pipelines carrying Iraqi oil across the country to the Mediterranean...