Word: iraqization
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...Happiest Moment." With this obstacle to unity neatly bypassed, Iraq's pouchy-eyed Crown Prince Abdul Illah flew to Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft...
...thrones and sovereign titles. The federation, to be organized within 90 days, is to have one flag, one army, one foreign policy, one foreign service. Both nations will keep their own legislatures. A combined federal legislature will be set up to deal with federal policies, in which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head of state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This is a big hint that...
...More Natural Union." There was none of the wild display of popular joy in Jordan last week that followed the unity proclamation in Cairo and Damascus. Yet, said an Iraqi leader: "This is the more natural union." Iraq and Jordan go together geographically, historically, and even-because Iraq has the oil wealth and the living space to absorb Jordan's refugees-economically...
...first to hail the new federation was the very man whose appeal it was formed to oppose. Egypt's Nasser fired off a congratulatory message to Feisal expressing the hope that the union of Iraq and Jordan would hasten the day of "great unity" -at the same time that his propagandists were denouncing the whole thing as "a new farce" engineered by "the same traditional feudal opportunists who have nothing in common with Arab nationalism and Arab aspiration...
...Rivalry. Inevitably, the two new unions had set up a rivalry in the Middle East that the world could not avoid. Both would need aid to survive. The two members of the United Arab Republic have been Soviet clients. Jordan and Iraq are oriented to the West. Both were bidding for support of the Arab world, for themselves, and, inescapably, for their patrons...