Word: iraqization
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...care fu.lly independent course in Arab politics. Nasser's picture smiles from thousands of shopwindows, Libyans listen nightly to Cairo radio, and-as in much of the Middle East-many of Libya's schoolteachers are Egyptian. But Libya refused to take sides with Nasser against Iraq. To all demands for its fealty, Moslem and non-Moslem alike, Libya replies in the proud words of Al Raid: "We do not need imported principles...
...first anniversary of the July 14 revolution in Iraq and for a week Baghdad was all holiday celebration. Down the hot, dusty streets where a year ago mobs dragged the mutilated bodies of Nuri asSaid and Crown Prince Abdul Illah, clowns danced, balloons bobbed, Girl Scouts marched, a giant papier-máché fist rolled by on a float, clutching the viper of imperialism, and a military camel in the parade, poked playfully by happy patriots, turned and spat expertly in their eyes. And under the crisp salute of Premier Karim Kassem-hero of the revolution and a year...
...austere, aloof and tense Premier, it had been anything but an easy year. He had kept Iraq from a Nasser takeover, despite anxious moments such as the Mosul revolt in March, but only at the cost of accepting more help from the street-organizing Communists than was healthy. In a characteristic compromise last week before the holiday began, Kassem reshuffled his Cabinet, adding three minor-league Communist sympathizers (including Iraq's first woman minister, a practicing gynecologist), but effectively demoting the once powerful fellow-traveling Minister of Economics Ibrahim Kubba to Minister of Agrarian Reform...
...Kassem saved his real news for the middle of the Big Week. Addressing a graduation throng at Iraq's military college in his controlled staccato, he said: "I assure you that by next Jan. 6 we shall celebrate the formation of political parties," and went on-amid shouts of "Kassem for first President of the Republic"-to promise a new constitution and free elections within a year. Whether in fact General Kassem and his army will dare freely surrender the fruits of their revolution to civilians remains to be seen: the experience of Middle East politics is all against...
...campaign for competitive coexistence with Iraq, Nasser was able to take advantage of another set of coexisting competitors. Already accepting Soviet aid to build his Aswan Dam, Nasser last week signed an $8,000,000 agreement with the U.S. to resume the technical-aid program broken off in the Suez crisis...