Word: premier
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...Enemies of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the man who is strategic Iraq's chief bulwark against a Communist takeover, charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth. Kassem himself recently told a TIME correspondent: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else if they like." Incidentally, the main reason Kassem rides through Baghdad every afternoon is not to receive the applause of the crowds, but to visit his suburban home for a bath: the Defense Ministry, where Kassem sleeps, has no bathroom...
...Mideast, too, one of the torchbearers of neutralism showed further signs of awakening. The U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, ranging himself against the Reds who surround Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, admitted that he once thought that Arab Communists were independent of Moscow. "But they were not," said Nasser; they were trying to sow dissension and "put us into spheres of influence...
...Cuban Premier Fidel Castro will give his April 25 Cambridge speech in Briggs Cage at Soldiers Field, the Law School Forum, sponsors of his address, announced last night...
Earlier, the Cambridge School Committee rejected a motion by one of its members to prevent the Premier from using the Rindge Technical School Auditorium. Daniel J. Hayes had sought the denial because Castro is a "controversial figure...
Fidel Castro, Premier of Cuba, will speak at the Law School Forum here on Saturday April 25. His topic will be "The Cuban Revolution...