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With that, Aref could get back to the business of running his country. To replace overzealous Premier Aref Abdel Razzak, who fled into exile when the coup failed, Aref chose Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, a political moderate linked to no party, and onetime ambassador to Egypt and Britain. In his first press conference, Bazzaz sought to mollify all segments of Iraq's traditionally unruly citizens. He told the Nasserites that his government would work for eventual "federal union" with Egypt, made businessmen happy by blasting Marxism, and tried to appeal to left-wing intellectuals by advocating non-Marxist socialism...