Word: karim
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Torn between the conflicting demands of Iraq's Arab nationalists and Communists, Iraqi Premier Abdul Karim Kassem is trying to keep a seesaw in balance all by himself. Last week, as the Arab world reacted to his Red-pleasing execution of a score of nationalist Iraqi officers and civilians (TIME, Sept. 28), it became clear that Kassem had stepped just a little too far to the Communist side of the fulcrum...
...paid claque that dominated the crowd in the courtroom. Then Communist-lining Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, the court's presiding judge, wandered through 20 minutes of invective against the leaders of Nasser's U.A.R. ("gangsters and robbers") and praise for Iraq's President Abdul Karim Kassem ("leader of the whole Arab nation"). At last, airily dismissing a defense counsel's request to be allowed to make a final plea to the court, Mahdawi got down to business, passed death sentences on able Brigadier Nadhem Tabakchali and three other Iraqi army officers accused of participating in last...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 20--Nineteen Iraqi Army officers and four civilians were executed today as enemies of Premier Abdel Karim Kassem's regime, Baghdad Radio announced. The officers were involved in a revolt at the northern military headquarters of Mosul last March 8 or were accused of plotting against Kassem...
When he needed help to consolidate his coup d'état last year, Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem trustingly relied on the local Communists. Soon they controlled the press, the state radio and government censorship, key propaganda posts where they set to work creating the legend of the revolutionary hero, the Sole Leader. Friends tried to warn the Sole Leader that he was being had, but it took the shocking evidence of the Red-led killing and burning at Kirkuk (TIME, Aug. 3) and Mosul to convince Kassem that the Communists were out to divide, not to unite...
...heat, representatives of Baghdad's press and radio settled uneasily in their chairs for a hastily called press conference by Premier Karim Kassem. He wanted to ask questions, not answer them. For four hours an unsmiling Kassem blasted his audience, charged Baghdad's predominantly Communist press with fomenting the recent bloody, three-day uprising in Kirkuk that took 121 lives. Though he never used the term "Communist," Kassem referred repeatedly to "anarchists," and his audience knew whom he had in mind...