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...long ago, Abdul Karim Kassem, lean and psychotic strongman of Iraq, boasted that he had survived 38 attempts to kill him over the past 4½ years. Last week in Baghdad, death kept the 39th appointment...
...Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Marilyn Monroe (who signed in red ink), J. Paul Getty (who signed in black), and Tibet's Dalai Lama. Some of the signers send more than their autograph: John F. Kennedy enclosed an autographed picture with one of the two covers he signed; Abdul Karim Kassem (whose signature is a collector's item now), sent a copy of a speech he had just made; J. Edgar Hoover added some FBI pamphlets, and Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky scribbled some propaganda right on his face: "We struggle for peace all over the world...
Rebel Iraqi army officers overthrew the government and issued a characteristic Middle Eastern communiqué: "With the help of God, we have been able to destroy the enemy of God and of the people, Abdul Karim Kassem, and his gang, who have used the country for their own interests and who choked liberty and disrupted...
Died. Abdul Karim Kassem, 48. Iraqi Premier who seized power in a coup d'état; reportedly in front of a firing squad, after another coup d'état; in Baghdad (see THE WORLD...
...great shakes at fighting. But they're a persistent lot when it comes to overthrowing the government at home. No fewer than ten attempted coups have taken place in 13 years. One group of officers has plotted steadily for more than two years. Led by Colonel Abdel Karim Nahlawi, 39, the military malcontents were in on the coup that severed Syria's union with Egypt. Last March, they tried to take over the government, but were packed off as military attachés in Syrian embassies abroad...