Word: kassem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iraq's 1958 revolution, and the body of Premier Nuri asSaid was dismembered. Five years later, another set of revolutionaries displayed the bullet-riddled body of President Abdul Karim Kassem on television. But last week's repulsive spectacle of mass public hangings provoked an international outcry. Pope Paul spoke out against the "abomination" and perceived a suspicion that motives of racism were involved." He had previously appealed to Iraq) for mercy for the condemned men, as had the U.S., Britain, France and Italy. They now condemned the executions as, in the words of Secretary of State William...
Coup-ridden Iraq seldom overthrows its leaders gently. In 1958, Iraqis gunned down King Feisal II and dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse. When they deposed Soldier-President Abdul Karim Kassem in 1963, the rebels tommy-gunned him, dragged his body to a television studio, then switched on the cameras to show the public the gruesome spectacle. Last week there was an other coup in Iraq, but this time it was relatively civilized...
Died. Field Marshal Abdul Salam Aref, 47, President of Iraq, a wily plotter who was General Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter...
...turned out two scripts for Elvis Presley, a Western, two comedies (Wives and Lovers and Boeing, Boeing) and, for Paramount, Affair in Arcady ("I call it an original because the novel was about a Chicago gangster turned Virginia farmer and the screenplay was about the late dictator of Iraq, Kassem"). He has just completed a TV script, A Time for Killing, with George C. Scott (Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, April 30), and is working on The Cruel Sport, a screen script about "the morality of Grand Prix racing...
...ruble debts or his other borrowings. In strife-torn Yemen and coup-prone Syria, Russian aid has been largely dissipated in a sea of domestic troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make it easy to turn down aid, have all refused to accept the merest Red cent...