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Open to Offers. Nasser is being insistently neutral these days, and no longer shows a pattern of antagonism for the West. Leaning away from the Communists because they back his rival Kassem in Iraq, he makes it clear that he has signed with the Russians to build only the Aswan project's first stage (coffer dams and a diversion canal). Concerning the project's more ambitious second and third stages (building the nearly three-mile-long, half-mile-thick dam itself and its power plants), Public Works Minister Mousa Arafa says: "As a neutral country, we will take...
Making up for eight weeks spent in the hospital recovering from an assassin's bullets, Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem turned to unfinished business. In his headquarters inside Baghdad's ugly yellow brick Defense Ministry, he put seven committees to work on crash programs, one reorganizing the army (and negotiating with Moscow for arms), a second restudying Iraq's foreign policy, another drafting a new constitution, a fourth drawing up an electoral law to regulate the long-promised return of "normal" political activity on Jan. 6. By that date Kassem himself hopes to reassert his position...
...Iraqi party that supports Kassem's home and foreign policies without giving allegiance either to Cairo or to Moscow is the National Democratic Party. Since last summer the National Democrats have been fighting a fierce battle with the Communists for the loyalties of Iraqi farmers. The Communists won the first skirmish by getting a Redlined onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past...
...last bullet was successfully removed from Kassem's left arm one day last week, and the Premier, clad in pajamas and silk dressing gown, strolled about the hospital. Once again, as it has before, word spread that Kassem would be out of the hospital "in a few days...
...high time. Things have been standing still in Iraq, in uneasy tension between the Communists and the conservatives. Though oil flowing to Western markets still brings Iraq royalties at the rate of $230 million a year, Kassem's 16-month-old revolution has done little to better the Iraqis' lot. Farmers, unsure whether the government will go through with land reform, have cut back on their planting. Eggs have tripled in price, rice costs 50% more, and wheat has become so scarce that authorities had to import 45,000 tons from Turkey two months ago to meet...