Word: kassem
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...dismissed as merely another example of Kurdish cussedness. The rebels have moved steadily south out of the Zagros Mountains to within 70 miles of Baghdad, now have a quasi hold on sizable parts of Iraq. Their continued victories have also aroused non-Kurdish, democratic opponents of Premier Karim Kassem. The opposition ridicules Kassem's claim that the revolt is the fault of "British imperialists and their American stooges." blames his own bumbling for provoking the Kurds into war. Buffeted within and without, Kassem's regime is in danger of collapse...
...High Gear. Leading the rebellious Kurds is veteran pro-Communist Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) and military boss of a Red-supported puppet republic of Kurdistan just after the war. After the puppet state was dismantled in 1946. Barzani fled to Russia, returned only after Kassem staged his Communist-blessed revolution in Iraq in 1958. Kassem tried to curry favor among the Kurdish tribes to solidify his own power. He promised them Kurdish schools, Kurdish newspapers, a Kurdish political party. So that the Kurds would not get too strong, however, Kassem armed rival Kurdish clans, playing them...
Potent Precautions. More likely, Nasser's newest venture into troubled waters involves Kuwait. On Christmas Eve Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, keenly interested onlooker in India's invasion of Goa, said that he would follow suit by "liberating" the oil-drenched sheikdom "in the coming days." In the past, Nasser has had as little use for Kassem as for Arabia's harem kings, but recently there have been rumors of a reconciliation...
...brave talk, Kassem was in a tight corner. Britain announced that it was withdrawing 2,000 of the 5,000 troops it had rushed to defend Kuwait against Kassem, and Kuwait emphasized its eagerness to speed the evacuation. But in a barbed memorandum issued after a hurried visit to Nasser, the Kuwaitis declared that they would not ask the British to leave until either 1) Kassem drops all claims on their land, or 2) other Arab countries provide a police force of their own to replace the British, and themselves guarantee Kuwait's independence. The plan...
...start of his mammoth, six-day anniversary celebration, Kassem was plainly in no mood to back down. He flourished a note in which, he claimed, his oil-rich neighbor had offered him $112 million a year if he would drop his claims and guarantee Kuwait's independence. Rejecting the offer, Kassem snorted: "The issue is not a matter of money, oil or bribes, but of a holy land." He added: "Anyway, Iraq is rich...