Word: kassem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Style. Iraqis date the change from last November, when the Communists organized a strike of tobacco workers in Baghdad. Apparently, this was too much for Iraq's "sole leader," Major General Abdel Kerim Kassem. Army troops turned on the demonstrators, brusquely broke up the strike. Since then, 28 Communists have been condemned to death and ten others sentenced to terms of life imprisonment for atrocities perpetrated in the 1959 rioting. Party workers have been purged from government offices, the army and the trade unions. The Russian ambassador himself recently got a two-hour raking over from Kassem, who accused...
...learned to be wary. India has learned that Red China talks peace but grabs off border lands that have been traditionally Indian. After the Suez invasion, Egypt's Nasser accepted the embrace of the Russian bear and has been warily disentangling himself ever since. Iraq's Karim Kassem cut his nation adrift from the pro-Western Baghdad Pact and welcomed Russian aid. He soon found the Communists were using the situation to dislodge him from power, and has cracked down on domestic Reds and grown more standoffish with the Soviets...
...onetime Democrats were claiming they had been taken in by deposed Premier Adnan Menderes and hailing General Cemal Gursel's 38-member Committee of National Unity as Turkey's saviors. But abroad fears grew that Turkey's military rulers might be planning a permanent Nasser-or Kassem-type dictatorship rather than turn the country back to civilian rule...
Chosen Martyr. For weeks Iraq's Communists had been calling strikes and engaging in street brawls with National Democratic supporters of Premier Karim Kassem, in protest against their progressive exclusion from Iraq's revolutionary regime (TIME, April 11). Now at last they had a martyr. They shoved Shakhnoub's body into a conveniently waiting coffin and marched on the capital, demanding to see Premier Kassem himself. The police tried to stop them. Only keening louder, the mourners broke through and dashed for Kassem's headquarters. Near Baghdad's imposing Defense Ministry, the procession came...
...Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Although Russia a year ago offered the new revolutionary regime a $138 million line of credit to finance Russian imports and Russian aid projects, Iraqis say that the Russians are slow on delivery and their prices are too high. Receiving Mikoyan correctly but with pronounced coolness, Kassem reiterated that Iraq "refuses to bow to imperialism or any greedy quarter"-"greedy" being the favorite Kassem euphemism for Russian stooges in Iraq. Said Kassem to Mikoyan: "The command of our chariot is independent...