Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year subsidy from Britain. At London's urging, Iraq (Britain's only ally in the Arab world) offered Jordan military aid. But Iraq's offer came down to two planeloads of small arms; Nasser topped that by sending five Vampire jets. As a last resort, Britain proposed to send Iraqi troops into Jordan in an attempt to prevent a takeover by a Nasser-minded government in Jordan's forthcoming elections. On Oct. 12 Israel let it be known that such a move would mean war. Britain backed down, and Jordan veered conclusively toward Nasser. It was a decisive event...
Israel, however, had no intention of allowing Jordan to fall into Iraqi hands. If Iraqi troops enter Jordan, warned Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion pointedly, "Israel will reserve freedom of action." In the inflamed and credulous Middle East there were many who thought war was about to break...
Israel's warning had its effect, however. The Jordanian government announced that "for the time being" Iraqi troops would not come...
...security of Israel's border, other explanations needed to be found for the pattern of mounting Israeli attacks. One factor seems to be that Israelis believe that the state of Jordan is disintegrating politically, and that they must look to their flanks before the Egyptians or the Iraqis arrive there to fill the expected vacuum. Also, those Israeli who think a showdown with the Jordanians inevitable must be tempted to provoke the fight at a time when Jordan, its own forces considerably inferior to Israel, cannot count on the certain support of an Egypt preoccupied with the Suez problem...
...Mother. With this torrent of words, redhaired, leggy Helen Johnstone purged herself of the romantic dream she had nurtured three years ago when she was a clerk in the accounting department of West Coast Airlines and met a sloe-eyed Iraqi student at the College of Puget Sound. Even the reservations of Helen's father, a retired Navy commander, were not strong enough to hinder the marriage, and with the blessings of both her parents, Helen became Mrs. Abdul...