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...High Gear. Leading the rebellious Kurds is veteran pro-Communist Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) and military boss of a Red-supported puppet republic of Kurdistan just after the war. After the puppet state was dismantled in 1946. Barzani fled to Russia, returned only after Kassem staged his Communist-blessed revolution in Iraq in 1958. Kassem tried to curry favor among the Kurdish tribes to solidify his own power. He promised them Kurdish schools, Kurdish newspapers, a Kurdish political party. So that the Kurds would not get too strong, however, Kassem armed rival Kurdish clans, playing them...
...gold drain. "You need dollars. Here is what will get you dollars,'' said Lavaud, handing U.S. officers a list of things that France would like to buy. It included equipment for a gaseous diffusion plant to make enriched uranium, plans for nuclear submarines, propulsion and guidance gear for rocket missiles...
...ball the opening face-off and rifled a pass Lou Williams who converted for the goal. During the afternoon Williams five tallies to be the Crimson's high . At 1:31 of the opening period, Sieglaff dented the Crusader nets the second varsity tally and the moved into high gear...
...Effects tests to see how well U.S. equipment and facilities, particularly electronic-communications gear, stand up under nuclear explosions...
...Deviation. When Volvo built its first auto in 1927, its engineers were so inexperienced in the field that the car bolted backward when thrown into first gear. Today, however, Volvo factories swarm with lynx-eyed inspectors so uncompromising that suppliers are apt to find entire shipments of parts rejected for a minor deviation that many auto companies would let pass. Such rigid adherence to standards comes straight from Volvo's incisive Managing Director Gunnar Engellau, 55, who coldly compels his top executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau...