Word: iraqization
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...successful comeback. He lost much of his claim for the title of Arab leadership in 1961, when an army coup wrenched Syria from its short-lived merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic. That left Nasser without a single Arab ally, and surrounded by such virulent enemies as Iraq's Dictator Kassem and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then came last month's Iraqi revolution and the overthrow of Kassem. No one could blame Egypt's leader for harking back to old dreams of Arab grandeur, for this new man in Baghdad-President Abdul...
...Aref sent a helicopter north to pick up two delegates of the Kurdish rebels in the hope that he might negotiate an end to the bloody civil war that has tied up half the 75,000-man Iraqi army; he even made friendly overtures to the U.S.-British controlled Iraq Petroleum Co., which Kassem had alienated...
...militia). A soldier on guard at the office told him. "That dog has long since been jailed.'' The Soviet Red Cross even appealed to the International Red Cross to help protect Communists, whom it preferred to call ''the democratic patriots victimized by bloody persecution in Iraq...
When the first hectic days were over, the novices would get around to answering Gamal Abdel Nasser's cry for union. At week's end Iraq's thinking was summed up by Foreign Minister Shahib, who proposed a joint meeting of the four "liberated" Arab states (Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria) to "coordinate work among them in various fields with a unionist revolutionary and socialist tendency...
Four years after the 1958 coup that ended royal rule in oil-rich Iraq, a pretty blonde girl, Genevieve Arnault, 23, told a strange story to a Manhattan court. She was, she said, the widow of assassinated King Feisal II, 23 at the time of his death. They had fallen in love at a garden party in Greenwich, Conn, given by her mother, a lady engineer and construction company executive. In 1957 Genevieve went to Baghdad, where she and Feisal were secretly married. Who believed it? A Manhattan surrogate court judge, that's who. The judge ruled that...