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...Dictator Kassem and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then came last month's Iraqi revolution and the overthrow of Kassem. No one could blame Egypt's leader for harking back to old dreams of Arab grandeur, for this new man in Baghdad-President Abdul Salam Aref-was a former Nasser protege dedicated to Pan-Arab unity...
...week after the overthrow of Iraq's Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. the crack of rifle fire still echoed in Baghdad's Liberation Square. Tanks and armored cars kept stern vigil at every important intersection. Scurrying everywhere were the little squads of men wearing green armbands-ferrets who sought to find and to crush the last remaining opposition to Rebel President Abdul Salam Aref and his mysterious revolutionary backers...
...applause of Western diplomats. But anyone who had witnessed the perilous passage of other, earlier revolts with laudable ambitions, could only hope that the rebels would stop the shooting and start running the country. In the long run, guns will hardly serve the new regime better than they served Abdul Karim Kassem...
...Sukarno's ambition to absorb oil-rich Brunei and its two neighbors. He also is anxious as usual for an issue to deflect mounting public criticism over Indonesia's growing economic crisis. Fearing that Sukarno is itching to start something, Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman appealed to London for reinforcements. The British obligingly put 2,000 crack troops on a 72-hour alert to reinforce its Southeast Asia forces, because of "the possibility of outside interference...
...Died. Abdul Karim Kassem, 48. Iraqi Premier who seized power in a coup d'état; reportedly in front of a firing squad, after another coup d'état; in Baghdad (see THE WORLD...