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...week after the overthrow of Iraq's Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. the crack of rifle fire still echoed in Baghdad's Liberation Square. Tanks and armored cars kept stern vigil at every important intersection. Scurrying everywhere were the little squads of men wearing green armbands-ferrets who sought to find and to crush the last remaining opposition to Rebel President Abdul Salam Aref and his mysterious revolutionary backers...
...rule, friendship with all Arab states, and the "overcoming of all the difficulties facing the Iraqi people." But he was mysteriously silent about the size or membership of the all-powerful National Council of the Revolutionary Command, which organized and led the revolt against Kassem...
...always he had to fear disaffection in his own army. He was promising even greater army purges when last week the rebels struck. After more than ten hours of hard fighting, the Defense Ministry was in ruins and Kassem's disheartened defenders surrendered. Kassem was alive, but only for a little while. The rebel Iraqi radio announced that he had been "tried" on the spot, condemned and, at 90 minutes past noon the next day, stood against a wall and executed...
...politics), the revolt seemed an impressive triumph for Egypt's Nasser, even if he had no direct hand in it. If so, there would be trouble for the hard-pressed kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as for the British-protected sheiks of the Persian Gulf. "Kassem has gone; soon Kings Saud and Hussein will go too," said a complacent Egyptian in Cairo. But first, Nasser's supporters were confident that the Iraqi coup would set off a succession of uprisings in neighboring Syria, which has already put down two pro-Nasser revolts since breaking...
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...