Word: strongmanism
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Iraq (pop. 5,200,000) is the only Arab member of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Egypt's chief rival for Arab leadership, Iraq was until recently counted a British preserve. Tough old Nuri es-Said, Iraq's strongman, is Britain's best Arab friend in the area, but under pressure of nationalists 1) announced publicly, after the Suez invasion, that Iraq will boycott all Baghdad Pact meetings attended by Britain, 2) told the U.S. privately that if he is to survive he must disengage from the British. Rich oil reserves, well spent on long-range development...
...Pipelines. In these defiant words, with their faded Churchillian echoes, Egypt's strongman prepared his people for guerrilla war-and did not add what his words implied: that his army and air force had been badly mauled. The same day, the chief priests of Cairo's famed El Azhar Mosque proclaimed a jihad, or holy war, against Britain and France...
...goner," said President Anastasio Somoza to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan the night Somoza was shot down by a 27-year-old gunman (TIME, Oct. 1). "They got me this time, Tommy," he added. Rushed from Nicaragua to the Canal Zone, the 60-year-old strongman withstood a four-hour bullet-removing operation and later a windpipe incision to ease his labored breathing. But he never fully regained consciousness in the U.S.-owned Gorgas Hospital. Late last week, just seven days after the shooting, he began to sink fast. A few hours later, as he had foreseen, Tacho Somoza...
...crowd in the local Somoza-founded Workers' Club. It was just after 11 o'clock on Sept. 21-Somoza has always thought that 21 was his lucky number-when one of the celebrators pulled a snub-nosed Smith and Wesson .38 revolver and opened fire on the strongman...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable about a half-wit girl and a brutal carnival strongman; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...