Word: iraqis
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Last week the Middle East heard details of the latest attempted coup to come off the Iraqi assembly line. It was scheduled for noon last Sept. 4 as Aref and most of his Cabinet boarded a Viscount turboprop en route to the Arab summit at Alexandria. The Viscount was to be escorted by a squadron of six MIG fighters of the Iraqi air force-and all six pilots were members of a Baathist cell, who had agreed to blast the presidential plane to bits as it took...
Restive Kurds. Although the coup was smashed, President Aref could be certain that more trouble lay ahead for the troubled regime. In Vienna last spring, a band of Baathist exiles met under the leadership of Brigadier Hardan Takriti, the former Baathist commander in chief of the Iraqi army, who this year was exiled to Europe as Iraq's Ambassador to Sweden. Vowed Takriti: "By the beard of the Prophet, I swear I will overthrow the traitor Aref...
Whether the Iraqi peace would last, or the Kurdish rebellion soon be resumed, seems to depend on how the various terms of the agreement are interpreted by each side. Aref's acceptance of the "national rights" of the Kurds may or may not turn out to be the equivalent of the "Kurdish autonomy" for which Barzani and his pyejmargas have fought so long and so tenaciously...
...Iraq, the struggle was between burly Vice Premier Ali Saleh Saadi, a radical, and a faction of moderates headed by Foreign Minister Talib Shabib and Interior Minister Hazim Jawad. Saadi and his friends want more or less instant socialization of the Iraqi economy, crackdown on the middle class, revolution throughout the Arab world, and an anti-Western policy. Shabib, Jawad & Co. favor a slower, more conciliatory course...
Until party elections are held some time next year, Iraq will apparently be run by the Baath Central Committee (which includes a Jordanian, a Lebanese and a Kuwaiti as well as Iraqi and Syrian generals) and by Michel Aflak, the Secretary-General and real power in the party. It was the first time that Aflak, a withdrawn, seemingly gentle intellectual who has sanctioned the executions of hundreds of political opponents, emerged from his shadowy position behind the scenes...