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SOME time in the night, the eleven men-eight Jews, two Moslems and a Christian-were secretly hanged in their prison in Baghdad. Then their bodies, clad in the red jail uniform of the doomed, were hauled by truck to downtown Liberation Square, where a set of wooden gallows had been hastily constructed to display them. Next morning Baghdadis awoke to martial music and the shrill cries of loudspeakers and radio, urging them to take the day off to view the executed "Israeli spies." For those who could not make the trip, the government ordered the medieval sight broadcast...
...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 P. Rogers, "repugnant to the conscience of the world...
Assumption of Innocence. Iraq insisted that the hangings were purely an internal affair. According to Baghdad, the eleven executed men had been part of a ring that included another three-two Moslems and a Jew-who were hanged in the port city of Basra on the same day. The charge said that they had formed a spy-and-sabotage network reporting to Israel and the "U.S. consulate at Abadan" in Iran. There is no U.S. consulate or other U.S. Government office in Abadan. Baghdad identified the ringleader as Izra Zilkha, an elderly Jew who ran a one-room kitchenware shop...
...cousin who was hanged was a good man. Some of the most important men in Iraq came to his store. He was very, very far from politics." The speaker was Benjamin Aharon, 51, who left Baghdad in the early 1950s as did more than 100,000 fellow Jews, and now lives in Israel. Although his family had lived in Baghdad and Basra for centuries, he had no regrets about leaving. "We were all suspected of being spies for Israel, but we did nothing, nothing . . . They are Nazis." The 2,500 Jews who remain in Iraq today live under a reign...
Undoubtedly much of the institute's work will be kept under tight security wraps and go directly to the top men in the Kremlin (Arbatov is said to have the ear of Premier Aleksei Kosygin). But the institute has announced an ambitious publication list-none of it so far available-for this year. Arbatov plans to bring out a monograph showing the influence of ideology on foreign policy. Deputy Director Evgeny Sergeevich Shcherchnov, an economist, is scheduled to publish a study of trade policy, and a group of specialists, including Gromyko, is expected to produce a work...