Word: iraqization
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...Iraq's grey eminence, ex-Premier Nuri asSaid, who had risked most in making Iraq the only Arab nation to join the pact, came to Ankara with more specific demands. The U.S., Nuri insisted, must make up its mind to become a full member of the Baghdad Pact. He also wanted the U.S. to espouse a settlement for Palestine which would cut Israel back to its 1947 borders. Nuri hinted that if his demands were not met, Iraq's interest in staying in the pact would be scant indeed...
Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes, a man who does not scare easily, took Nuri seriously enough to fly off to Baghdad for a hasty conference with Iraq's influential Crown Prince Abdul Illah; on his return, he looked anything but happy. The U.S. quietly withdrew an advance text of Dulles' opening speech. Plainly, the Baghdad powers had reached a crossroads of confidence, would not be content with the platitudes of sympathy and support...
...extinguisher. In Mexico, 3,500,000 houses have been sprayed. The program is well along in Central America, coastal Ecuador and Peru, Formosa, Swaziland and Ceylon. It is finished in northern Venezuela, several Caribbean islands and parts of Argentina. Soon to feel the fine spray of DDT are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, the Philippines...
...Arab nationalists of Syria and Egypt, he cried: "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. We have only one objective, that the peoples be freed from colonial dependence." Last week Pravda offered the pro-Western Arab states of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq "ready Soviet Union cooperation in economic development," if they too would accept "the same [i.e., neutralist] principles" as Syria and Egypt...
...Book of Jubilees, a Hebrew document, probably of the 3rd or 4th century B.C., that purports to be a series of messages about the history of mankind given to Moses by an angel. By far the most interesting elements in the book are provided by the latest diggings in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...