Word: iraqization
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...area to the threat presented by a Communist-dominated Syria, the U.S. had displayed its power too nakedly, set Arab leaders off in a whipped-up frenzy of public denunciation of U.S. interference and pledges of confidence in Syria. As a result the bloc of "reasonable Arabs" - Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued by a $20 million deficit in his army budget and under fire for his close involvement with the U.S., nervously shot off last week to an oil pumping station...
...would be too much to expect an economy-oriented Congress to provide at the same time for the possibility of American aid being asked in internal conflicts within countries with which we are allied. To give aid in cases where Communist troops threaten to overthrow friendly governments, such as Iraq, America would have to be able to get small units to the trouble areas in a flash. Such readiness would be too expensive to provide at the moment, and our best hope is that provisions for wars of small dimensions can be made now. We cannot allow such a palpable...
...child ensconced on the throne of Iraq at the age of three, King Feisal liked toy tanks and lollipops. In a 19-year maturing process that included three years at England's Harrow, his tastes expanded to include a decided predilection for blondes, a commodity not always easily come by in the black-eyed Middle East...
Winter Wait. It was only after he returned to Baghdad that Feisal remembered protocol long enough to send the Premier of Iraq and the Chief of the Royal Palace hotfooting to Istanbul with a large diamond and emerald engagement ring...
...national holiday was declared last week in Iraq to celebrate the official engagement, but the wedding will not take place until next summer, when Feisal's new, blue-domed palace is finished. Besides, Fazilet's mother insisted: "She has to finish her schooling, you know." Which school? "Oh," said the bride's father, already feeling the lessening of his parental responsibilities, "we'll leave all that to King Feisal...