Word: kassem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...focus of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment in our contemporary world"). The Communists control propaganda, dictating the tone of all Baghdad newspapers. They also control the streets, as last week's events in Baghdad showed. Pictures of Khrushchev have now begun to appear in windows beside those of Kassem...
...arrests of Nasser's supporters would strengthen one group more than any other in Iraq: the Communists, who have intrigued their way into key positions in Kassem's regime. Increasingly dependent on the Reds, relying on the Soviets for trade deals as well as for planes and guns, Karim Kassem, a politically inexperienced soldier, was furthering a real conspiracy against his regime while persuading himself that he had foiled a different...
...change. A strong, unexpected and menacing Communist current is running through the streets of Baghdad, proving that during the 40 years of British-backed strong-man rule in Iraq the Communists were able to develop and harden the best-organized apparatus in the Middle East. Iraqi Premier Karim Kassem, needing political support for his army dictatorship, has had to call upon the Communists to fight off those who want to merge Iraq into Nasser's one big Arab nation. At this crucial point, a crack is showing in those Arab nationalist forces which were formerly united by the simple...
...Hourani, who saw the Communists about to come to power in Syria and, to prevent it, rushed Syria into union with Egypt. And it was the Baath Socialists in Iraq, emerging as the chief anti-Communist and pro-Nasser force in the country, who were the chief victims of Kassem's roundup of conspirators in Baghdad last week. In Cairo, Saeb Salam, who led Nasserite forces in the recent Lebanese rebellion, emerged from a long session with Nasser to say that the Communists were opposing Nasser in Iraq and that the Americans were helping Moscow by also opposing...
...Second Front. Nasser was still doggedly protesting his brotherly loyalty to Iraq's General Kassem, still praising the Russians for sending him another batch of war planes. At last week's 40-nation Afro-Asian economic conference in Cairo, Soviet and U.A.R. delegates worked together to get Cairo designated the group's permanent headquarters, and it was left to the delegates from Indonesia and the Philippines to stand up against Communist pressure. Nasser himself seemed wholly unimpressed by the conciliatory moves the U.S. has recently made towards him-releasing $26 million in blocked funds, reviving the CARE...