Word: subbagh
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...Jebbar Subbagh in a blossom-strewn ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Palo Alto. In time a baby son was born, and the local minister christened him Paul. Except for the homesickness in Abdul's heart, all might have been well, but at last (in Helen's words), "Nothing would do but we had to go and visit his mother in Baghdad...
With the help of the U.S. vice consul, who intervened in her behalf at the Ministry of Justice, Helen Subbagh was at last able to get her baby (a U.S. citizen) away from her husband's family, but with the proviso from the court that she must not take the child out of the country. But, "as soon as I had Paul safe in my arms," she confessed, "I went to a suburban station where the family couldn't follow me, and I got the last second-class ticket on the first train leaving for Basra." Added...
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