Word: iraqization
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...issue that reprinted a cartoon from the Manchester Guardi an showing Nkrumah gagging the press. In Arab countries, censors sometimes wield their scissors as if they were scimitars. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Libya have confiscated or cut pages out of issues in recent months, and in Iraq the censor has objected to stories about Middle Eastern politics, to cartoons, to a classically painted nude, and to stories, and even an ad, about Israel...
...presidency of ascetic General Fuad Chehab, a Christian Arab whose policy is pro-Western, yet also friendly to Egypt's Nasser. Last week's revolt against Chehab was led by the Popular Syrian Party, a right-wing Moslem group dedi cated to uniting Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq into a single Arab state...
Potent Precautions. More likely, Nasser's newest venture into troubled waters involves Kuwait. On Christmas Eve Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, keenly interested onlooker in India's invasion of Goa, said that he would follow suit by "liberating" the oil-drenched sheikdom "in the coming days." In the past, Nasser has had as little use for Kassem as for Arabia's harem kings, but recently there have been rumors of a reconciliation...
...foremost playground and financial center in the Eastern Mediterranean, Beirut is choked with well-heeled pashas, politicians and oil sheiks from Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-most of them distrustful of cash and preferring concrete investment. In recent years the Arab millionaires have sunk $83 million into Beirut apartment houses. The Kuwaiti sheik who tools past his ten-story property in an air-conditioned Lincoln is delighted that he has converted his money into something solid-even though it may be half empty. "Why should I lower my rents and let the poor people in?" asked one pasha...
...Iraq...