Word: iraqization
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JULY: LEBANON. When Arab nationalism, fanned by United Arab Republic President Nasser, blasted pro-Western Iraq out of the Middle East's dwindling pro-Wrestern line-up in one night's murderous palace revolution, the U.S. sent Sixth Fleet marines and Army paratroops into Lebanon at Lebanon's request to secure it from overthrow by Nasserite rebels. Results: the U.S. 1) stabilized the situation in Lebanon for a few crucial months at least, 2) demonstrated to its allies worldwide that it was able and ready to support them, 3) showed above all that the Russians, when confronted...
...statesmen who did have cause for self-satisfaction in 1958 were nearly all new men?relative unknowns who had ridden a wave of discontent into power. Most of them were generals?Lebanon's Chehab, Iraq's Kassem, Burma's Ne Win, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, the Sudan's Abboud. And most seemed to have no program beyond the military man's urge to tidy up the frequently corrupt, frequently ineffectual parliamentary systems of young nations...
...decided at last that he was in jeopardy from the Communists, he was moving cautiously. At week's end there were many rumors but little evidence of Communist arrests in Syria. He carefully made no mention at all of the even touchier situation created by the Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists...
Next day, while the newspapers gloated about Rountree's "fleeing from the crowds which came to receive him," the State Department envoy was scheduled to call on Iraq's head of state, General Kassem. The Iraqis sent an army station wagon and a jeepload of troops and-semi-secretly and with no flag flying-the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State was smuggled off to call on the Prime Minister of a supposedly friendly country. It was the only time he left the embassy in his two days in Iraq...
...free to demonstrate their feelings," insisted they had nothing against Rountree personally but were simply expressing resentment of the U.S. built up over the years of the Nuri asSaid regime, which came to a bloody ending last summer. In turn, Rountree said the U.S. wanted friendly relations with Iraq and hoped that greater mutual confidence could be created. After exchanging platitudes for 90 minutes, Rountree left. Kassem's next visitor was the Soviet ambassador, who spent 45 minutes with the general in what was also described as "an atmosphere of friendship and cordiality" in Baghdad papers next...