Word: rashid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bridges. Its new $30 million refinery provides Iraq with gasoline at 15? a gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room to expand now that the Tigris can be curbed...
...other two forums will be "How Should the U.N. Charter Be Revised?" with Ernest Gross and Norman Cousins, December 10; and a two-day discussion March 18 and 19 on Arab-Israel problems with Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and Abdul Rashid, Lebanon delegate...
...people dwelt in plenty and exported wheat to Rome. Now the east bank cannot even support its 400,000 people, who get along only because London, for strategic reasons, ships in ?8,000,000 sterling a year to Jordan. Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in the fabled caliphate of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), supported 30 million people; Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000, and 30,000 public baths. Today, all Iraq barely supports 5,000,000 people, and last week a New York Times reporter described much of Bagdad as "a festering slum." An entire civilization once flourished...
...barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds, by the House of Rashid...
...started down Rashid Street. As it passed the U.S. Information Service Building, a group, led by a known Communist and carrying oil, crowbars and battering rams, broke ranks and headed straight for the USIS. The men battered down steel shutters (it was Sunday), climbed inside and methodically began pitching everything out of the windows-books, typewriters, files, cabinets, papers, a safe. Then they doused the thousands of jumbled books and magazines with oil and fired them. The building was also set afire. Within an hour the USIS establishment in Baghdad, valued at $125,000, an important weapon in the cold...