Word: iraqization
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...cooling winds of moderation continue to blow across the Middle East. Last week in Iraq, reversing a virtually uninterrupted forced march to extreme socialism and dictatorship that began in 1958, Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz suggested Baghdad's sweeping nationalization laws had gone too far, declared it was time for a turn to private industry and Western foreign in vestments. Moreover, guaranteeing in dividual rights in a fashion unheard of in modern Iraq, Bazzaz, the quiet, Western-oriented technician whom President Abdul Salem Aref installed two months ago, decreed that henceforth no Iraqi citizen may be arrested without a warrant...
...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. His goal, said Bazzaz, was to create a flourishing Iraq where...
...bright. As an early Moslem conqueror put it: "If you want a people to order and be obeyed, you have Egypt; if you want a people to feed and be obeyed, you have Syria; but if you waift a people who revolt against wrong and right, you have Iraq...
...expected to bring forth a better life on the Ni'e. When the project is completed in 1971, Aswan Dam will put 2,400,000 acres of new land into cultivation, generate 10 billion kw-hours of electricity annually and, hopefully, double Egypt's national income. In Iraq, where water is so scarce that the penalty for maliciously damaging an irrigation works is death, plans are being made to dam the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for power and irrigation. Brazil has just completed the $186 million Furnas Dam, South America's largest hydroelectric complex. In a project...
President Aref was gone, but his brother, Deputy Chief of Staff General Abdul Rahman Aref was not. He quickly rallied the pro-Aref forces - and may well have had a spy on Razzak's team. At any rate, the rebel tank detachment bound for Radio Iraq was intercepted and captured after a brief encounter in Baghdad's streets. Other loyal troops surrounded the government ministries and arrested Premier Razzak and his fellow conspirators...