Word: iraqization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the proposed new Arab union of Iraq, Syria and Egypt now on every Arab lip, the merger virus swept irresistibly through Jordan. The riotous crowds ended three years of relative political calm, and faced tough little King Hussein, 27, with his deepest crisis. Two-thirds of Jordan's 1,800,000 people are Palestinian Arabs, who care little about the nation's stability, progress or growing industry. Above all else, they are intent on eliminating Israel and regaining their former homes, and see Arab unity as the only way to do it; to them, Egypt...
...years ago, when Nasser nationalized all the banks in the United Arab Republic, Shoman lost six branches. When Syria and Iraq recently announced their intention to merge with Egypt, the threat of losing twelve more branches would have driven most bankers to despair. But Shoman believes that any step toward Arab unity is worth some losses. "If the Arab world could be joined together and Arabs could trade freely, they would prosper like Americans," he says. "For the sake of Arab unity, I'll give it all away." He may not have to: aside from his family...
...Review articles on Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey deal with situations found in many developing countries. John E. Lawrence '63 discusses Nasser's pragmatic ideology; John L. Simmons '63 describes the problems which have held up land reform in Iraq, and Richard D. Robinson describes the Turkish revolt against the Menderes government...
These articles discuss doctrines of Arab Socialism as described in the Egyptian Constitution of 1956, describe in some detail the land reform programs in Iraq before and after Kassim's revolt, and list problems which the Second Turkish Republic has faced in attempting to remedy the abuses for which it executed Menderes. Each of these articles has some merit, but none of them is either well-written or particularly searching in its analysis...
...insistence on a single political party for the whole U.A.R., modeled on his own Arab Socialist Union in Egypt. Since this would swallow up and probably destroy the Baath movement, Baathists have held out for a looser, more representative system, including the Baath-created National Front in Iraq, and the Baathist-Nasserite Unionist Front in Syria. In the end, Nasser would probably have his way on this, as on other limitations to political democracy. A Cairo spokesman explained, in a phase definitely not borrowed from U.S. democracy, that "freedom will be guaranteed to the people, but not to the enemies...