Word: iraqization
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Touring the Middle East under the auspices of the U.S. State Department, Duke Ellington and his band found themselves caught in the middle of a coup in Iraq last week. Fascinated by the goings-on, the Duke promised to compose a new piece, "The Baghdad Rock-and I do mean rocking with rockets, bombs...
...avowed aim of Baath is to unite Iraq and Syria, which it already controls, and to add all other Arab countries to this union, through persuasion or subversion. Last week's tussles were caused partly by the clash of ambitions within the party, partly by differences over how quickly and radically the Baath aims should be pursued...
...Iraq, the struggle was between burly Vice Premier Ali Saleh Saadi, a radical, and a faction of moderates headed by Foreign Minister Talib Shabib and Interior Minister Hazim Jawad. Saadi and his friends want more or less instant socialization of the Iraqi economy, crackdown on the middle class, revolution throughout the Arab world, and an anti-Western policy. Shabib, Jawad & Co. favor a slower, more conciliatory course...
...looked like a clear victory for the moderates. Backed by gun-toting aides, Shabib and Jawad seized Saadi and three other Cabinet ministers, bundled them into a military plane without luggage and flew them to exile in Madrid-where Saadi kept hinting that he would yet return to Iraq in triumph...
...emergency meeting of the Baath high command decided upon a plague-on-both-your-houses gesture: Shabib, Jawad and five aides were hustled into another plane and sent into exile too-in Beirut. Strangely silent in the uproar was the one non-Baathist in a position of power, Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref, who was reportedly under palace arrest...