Word: iraqization
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...Iraq, said President Abdul Salam Aref, "is a factor for the production of coups d'état." Aref should know: he himself seized power last November, ousting the Baathist regime of Premier Hassan Bakr which had itself over thrown Dictator Kassem last year...
...soon as the MIGs struck, the 4th Armored Brigade, at Camp Rashid outside Baghdad and commanded by Colonel Ahmed el Jabouri, a covert Baathist, would storm into the city, seize the radio station and the government buildings. They would be supported by 10,000 Baathist cadres from all over Iraq, who had been quietly assembling in Baghdad. Everything was complete, down to recordings of Baathist anthems to be played over Radio Iraq on the day of the coup...
...army was no match for Israel. Lebanon, Syria and Jordan were ready to increase their armed forces by 30%, as demanded by Egypt's General Ali Amer, commander in chief of the projected Arab army, but complained that they could not pay for it alone. Iraq's Abdul Salam proposed that Amer be authorized to move Arab forces anywhere in Arab territories during a time of danger. This started a wrangle in which it became very clear that many Arab states feared the arrival of Egyptian troops nearly as much as an Israeli attack...
...products he can buy, the jobs he can hold. Economists were the first to devise the plans for the Common Market in Europe and the Aswan Dam in Egypt. When Kuwait's government was pondering what to do with its sudden oil riches, it summoned Fakhri Shebab, an Iraq-born Oxford don; he conceived an $860 million regional-development fund that has extended loans to five Arab nations. Nicholas Kaldor, a Hungarian-born Briton, has drawn up budgets and tax programs for India and Ghana...
Thus last week Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied at the console by the Presidents of Iraq and Yemen, formally completed the first stage of the Aswan Dam project. After 1,550 days of work, the laborers had finished piling up enough rock for the cofferdam to stem the river; the explosion set off by Nasser and his visitors opened up a diversion channel through which the Nile will now flow until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood...