Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government announced that it honored its contract with the Iraq Petroleum Co. (predominantly British, French and American), though it was also interested in "modifying" the fifty-fifty contract by negotiation-as Nuri had been too. The new government proclaimed its withdrawal from the Arab Union with Jordan and signed a treaty of mutual defense with Nasser, but then astonished everyone by asserting, in the words of Hashim Jawad, its new delegate to the U.N., that "Iraq has never renounced the Baghdad Pact. It has never been considered." And he added: "Our friendship to the United States is still the same...
...corridors and lounges on Manhattan's East River reflected a gathering tension. The Iraqi delegate, whom the Soviet Union tried unsuccessfully to unseat, remained at his post, lonely and forlorn, ignored by most of his fellow Arabs. Ironically, the nation that had butchered Budapest and flagrantly violated the will of the U.N. now posed as the champion of small and weak nations invaded by foreign troops...
Shrewd, poker-faced Arkady Sobolev of the Soviet Union blustered that the whole U.S. position was "insolvent" on the face of it. The troop landings, he pointed out, had come not as the result of anything that happened inside Lebanon, but were triggered by the coup in Iraq. The U.S. action, therefore, was a "gross intervention into the domestic affairs of the states in this area." Sobolev demanded the immediate withdrawal of the marines...
After 2½ years of court fights to force a passport from the State Department, Artist Rockwell Kent, 76, longtime dabbler in odd-hued causes, prepared to leave for a tour of the Soviet Union, where a studio has just finished a documentary film on his work. Still applying a rare shade of pink to his world picture, Kent seemed worried about his warlike homeland, but the U.S.S.R., he assured reporters, "desperately desires peace...
...time to give the Southern Baptists a new name, urged the Rev. Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, executive secretary of the Texas State Baptist Convention. " 'Southern' is a sectional term that no longer describes our location. We are now in nearly every state in the Union and in Canada." The name is a handicap "to our ministry in areas beyond the South." Dr. Feezors suggestion: the Continental Baptist Convention...