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...censorship and tight military control, the noises coming out of Iraq last week nonetheless sounded like the laborings of an untended boiler approaching the point of explosion. Iraq's newspapers triumphantly reported the capture of some of the men who had almost succeeded in killing Premier Abdul Karim Kassem (TIME, Oct. 19)-but gave no names. Scarcely had these good tidings been announced when Radio Baghdad trumpeted that another assassination plot had been uncovered-but gave no details...
Only a few weeks before, Iraq's Premier Abdel Karim Kassem had been the nation's idol, but now the mention of his name drew sneers as well as applause from Baghdad crowds. As his tan Chevrolet station wagon rolled past the coffee shops on teeming Rashid Street, some coffee drinkers propped their legs on the café tables to show Kassem the soles of their feet-an Arab gesture of contempt. Demonstrators protesting last month's execution of 13 popular Iraqi army officers (TIME, Sept. 28) even dared to chant: "Allah is great, Kassem is crazy...
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...
Smelling the kind of trouble that often presages bloody revolt in Araby, ascetic Abdul Karim Kassem began to edge over to the other side of his seesaw. Without fanfare it was announced that Communists involved in last summer's Kirkuk massacre of Iraqi nationalists had been put on trial in an anti-Communist military court; simultaneously hints went out that, if everyone behaved, there might be sweeping amnesties for some of the several hundred nationalists languishing in Iraq's prisons. At week's end, Kassem was still maintaining his equilibrium, but his grisly balancing act lacked some...
...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...