Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touched off the rioting? Partly it began because in illiterate Iraq, elections rigged by the government in power are all too common. Last July, a few months after negotiating a new, generous 50-50 split of oil revenues with the I.P.C., Nuri El Said had to resign the premiership. A "caretaker government" was supposed to ensure the fairness of elections, but the four parties aligned against Nuri are far from satisfied that his caretakers are any better than he himself...
...Qavam resigned the premiership; he could do nothing else. He hurried into hiding, and at week's end was still safe, though mobs cried for his head and the Parliament threatened to strip him of his fortune. As the news of Qavam's downfall spread, 72-year-old Mossadegh stepped out on his balcony, sobbed to the mob: "Your sacrifice today saved the country," and fainted...
...left with her title of Foreign Minister, and was even allowed to sit on the ministers' bench one day last week while the National Assembly awarded the premiership of Red Rumania to her archrival, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.* But, no doubt about it, she was in bad odor...
...would be a Minister." When the showdown came, Barrachin toed the party line, but 27 other Gaullists bolted. They were still right-wingers, but they felt that the time had come to play more than a negative role. Their votes in the Assembly put into the premiership an all-but-unknown minister named Antoine Pinay, a conservative but not a Gaullist...
King Farouk has never liked his demagogue Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, has twice fired him from the premiership. Farouk's father, old King Fuad I, felt the same way about Nahas. He also sacked the Wafdist leader twice, only to be forced to make him Prime Minister again. Today, Farouk would probably like to fire Nahas again. Nahas' administration is corrupt and indolent, diverts attention from its own shortcomings by inflaming the mob against the British. Farouk does not love the British either,* but he realizes that Egypt's security lies with the West. He is openly...