Word: kassem
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BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 10--The Iraqi government of Premier Kassem claimed today it had crushed the revolt in northern Iraq but other reports said the rebellion was still alive. Some said rebels are fighting their way toward the Syrian border...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 9--Iraqi rebels claimed tonight that they held the oilrich north, under air attack, and were fanning out over Iraq from Mosul. The government claimed the rebel uprising was destroyed by bombers and troops of Premier Abdel Kassem's Baghdad regime...
...followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...first time, Premier Karim Kassem publicly jostled President Nasser for his place in Arab leadership...
...Kassem's tussle with domestic Arab nationalists who favor one big Arab nation, he had won the first round. But so had his Communist allies. The sole political party left in Premier Kassem's Cabinet is now the Communist-backed National Democrats. The leading pro-Communist among the Iraqi Cabinet ministers announced that he was off this week for Moscow to work out details of the new economic deal, which would put Western oil royalties to work on a development program in which Communist advisers will have the most...