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...advice of the Communists, who cry for blood vengeance, Kassem last week continued to release political prisoners from jail, and declared an amnesty for all those "who indulged in conflict which endangered the security and order of the country." Kassem also fired Baghdad's pro-Communist police chief, Abdul Baki Kadhim, replacing him with one of his own supporters, Taha Shaikly, who promptly cracked down on Communist demonstrations...
...week's end, after seeing the best that North Viet Nam had to offer, Sukarno departed for home, where he has troubles of his own, and where Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, who has run Indonesia in Sukarno's absence, summed up Indonesia's current situation in one word: "Gloomy...
Tigris in the Gardens. Prime case in point is Gropius' new plan for Iraq's University of Baghdad. The $70 million project seemed a lost cause when General Abdul Karim Kassem swept to power last summer. Never one to give up easily, Gropius last January flew to Baghdad himself with plans and models, found, to his relief, that Premier Kassem was enthusiastic.* Kassem's only cavil: the university was not big enough. Gropius promptly agreed to increase the size by one-third (from 8,000 to 12,000 students...
...eyes were on Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, army chief of staff, who led an abortive revolt against Parliament in 1952, might do so again. Hardworking, anti-Communist General Nasution proclaimed a ban on all political activity "until further notice," and, to protect the boss, ordered that no newspaper be allowed to publish pictures showing Sukarno kissing anyone, since public kissing is offensive to many Moslems...
...they ponder these pros and cons, Russia's cold-war planners must also be acutely aware of another complicating factor. Abdul Karim Kassem, now the Communists' most useful front man in the Arab world, was once a most useful servant of Nuri asSaid. And so long as Kassem, lifelong conspirator and dissembler, keeps any of the keys of power in Iraq, there is always the chance that he may yet teach Russia a lesson that the West has learned to its sorrow-the lesson that events in the Middle East have their own momentum...