Word: pact
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Then Bulganin stated the objects and achievements of the trip. Said he: "The peoples of the Asian countries cannot but feel alarmed over the establishment of such aggressive military alignments as SEATO and the recently designed Baghdad pact." These, said Bulganin, were simply "a manifestation of colonialism in another form." Any enemy of these pacts could count on Russia as its friend; in particular, the Communists support India's and Afghanistan's claims against Pakistan, and, boasted Bulganin, this tactic has paid off: "When we went to India, we knew we could expect a warm welcome. But what...
...challenge to the free world." Mendès maintained that the new Soviet activity represents merely "economic expansion" of the kind Western nations practiced a century and less ago. The recent Soviet-bloc arms deals with Egypt, added Mendès, were provoked by "the unlucky Baghdad pact, which constituted for the West a blunder ..." Antoine Pinay's signature on the NATO communique...
...chemicals of discontent which are present throughout the whole Arab world exploded in a foreboding chain reaction last week in Jordan. The trigger was Britain's attempt to bring Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact too fast; the effect was a setback for the West...
Hope Springs Eternal. Next day the King desperately recalled one of the nation's elder statesmen, ex-Premier Ibrahim Hashim, 67, to head a "caretaker" government, and promised an election within four months to decide whether to join the Baghdad pact. Then the King boarded his personal plane, circled over his capital city of Amman to watch the effect. Mobs continued marching through the streets, and by now professional porters were distributing stones from baskets on their backs. But by week's end, the furor had abated, especially after the King freed 1,000 arrested rioters. The toll...
Serious trouble erupted next day throughout the nation after the noon prayers in the mosques. Worshipers came storming forth, crying epithets against the Baghdad pact and the U.S., attacked emergency patrols of the Arab Legion with sticks and stones. A tight censorship closed down over the capital city of Amman, but some details got out. In the Arab half of Jerusalem, the U.S. consulate was surrounded and stoned, while the wives and children of the U.S. staff huddled in the safest place in the buildings: the stonewalled lavatories. At week's end El Maja-li's new government...