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...shelf and a half in a borrowed room" is all that Oxford Archaeologist Max Mallowan remembers the Iraq Museum as being back in 1925. But the surge of Arab nationalism that made Iraq independent after World War I carried with it pride in a past that goes back 90 centuries, and included such mighty capitals as Babylon, Nineveh and Ur. In 1936 laws were passed to safeguard Iraq's antiquities, which for over a century had been filtering out to the world's great museums. And to insure that relics unearthed in the future would be properly housed...
Allowing time out for assorted coups, uprisings, and a world war, it has taken the nation more than 30 years to complete the new $6,000,000 Iraq Museum, which was inaugurated last November by Iraq's President Abdel Rahman Aref before some 400 notables. But scholars agree that the museum, financed largely by the Gulbenkian Foundation, was worth the wait (see following color pages). Says the University of Pennsylvania's Archaeologist James B. Pritchard, a veteran of 16 years of excavations in the "Fertile Crescent": "The Iraq Museum is by far the most impressive museum...
...Bulls. Since before recorded history, Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," was the gateway between East and West; it was marched over, fought over, civilized and reduced to ashes by a dozen different peoples. The treasures contained in the Iraq Museum's five spacious, well-lit and air-conditioned buildings therefore trace an unequaled pageant of man's patient attempts to build and rebuild that ephemeral thing called civilization...
...December, the 550-mile oil pipeline stretching from Kirkuk, Iraq, across 305 miles of Syria to the Mediterranean ports of Baniyas and Tripoli went as dry as the arid land through which it snakes. The reason: in a dispute with Western-owned, London-based Iraq Petroleum Co.* over transit and terminal fees, socialist Syria squelched the flow...
...stiff diplomatic protests with the Chinese foreign ministry. Not sparing the few non-Communists in Peking, Red Guards also forced a French diplomat to stand for seven hours in Peking's freezing cold. Abroad, Chinese students and technicians demonstrated against the Soviet Union in Cambodia, Tunisia, Britain, Yugoslavia, Iraq and North Viet Nam. Typical of the venom that now marks Sino-Soviet relations was the chant of Chinese students outside the Baghdad embassy of the Soviet Union: "Hang the bastard Brezhnev...