Word: iraqization
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...streets last week to cheer as President Iskander Mirza, surrounded by his bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
...Federation. In significant contrast with Dictator Nasser's balcony-built merger, the Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan last week brought forth a new constitution conceived in careful wisdom and dedicated to the proposition that member nations of the new Arab Federation are best treated equals. By late April both countries will have held elections amounting to a referendum on their federation. Then Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, as chief of the federal state, will appoint a premier to name a federal cabinet, and the Arab Federation will be in business...
...federation will have integrated armed forces and a unified diplomatic service (though Iraq and Jordan will keep their separate seats in the United Nations). There will be the right of free movement between the two countries for all citizens (including Jordan's jobless Palestinian refugees). Iraq, which has already begun supplying oil and mutton...
Jordan's crowded cities, will initially bear 80% of the cost of the federal budget. But besides the federal Parliament, each nation will keep its own Parliament. Each nation will issue its own passports and run its own domestic economy; e.g., Iraq will not share its oil revenues to help Jordan's development projects...
...drafted to lay $500 million 1,100-mile line from Iran's Qum field (TIME, May 6) to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, and the two nations have offer of financial help from U.S. investors headed by Wall Street's Allen & Co. Prospect is that Iraq will hook into line via short feeder pipe, thus bypassing Syria...