Word: iraqization
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BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 9--Iraqi rebels claimed tonight that they held the oilrich north, under air attack, and were fanning out over Iraq from Mosul. The government claimed the rebel uprising was destroyed by bombers and troops of Premier Abdel Kassem's Baghdad regime...
...further suggested that the Soviets' real motives may lie elsewhere. "During the last Berlin crisis, in 1948-9," he commented, "the West lost China to the Communists; this time the Soviets may be attempting to divert us from the Middle East while they build up their position in Iraq...
...events," it seemed to his followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...neighboring Iran, the Shah grew so nervous about the new power in Baghdad that he demanded changes in the proposed new U.S.-Iranian agreement, to guard against invasion from Iraq as well as from Russia. It was hardly the kind of guarantee the U.S. could give. But in an attempt to bring the U.S. around, the Shah received a special Soviet diplomatic mission to his country to draft a new Soviet-Iranian nonaggression treaty (a tactic he had previously deplored when Egypt's President Nasser tried...
...three-column editorial headed "The Perfidious Policy of Iran," Pravda roared that the Shah's "two-faced dealings" would earn him the same dark fate as Cuba's Batista and Iraq's late King Feisal. If the Shah needed any precedent for his maneuverings he could cite the way Molotov bargained for weeks with the British in 1939 and then confronted them with the secretly drawn Stalin-Hiuer pact...