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From the site of the fabled Tower of Babel in the south to the remote mountain homes of Kurdish tribesmen in the north, the young (21) King of the ancient land of Iraq traveled last week at the head of a caravan of Cadillacs and Chryslers bearing guests from 13 nations. The purpose of King Feisal's 2,000-mile journey: to show off progress on the second anniversary of Iraq's $1.2 billion, five-year national development program. "The most impressive thing in the Middle East today," glowed U.S. Ambassador Waldemar J. Gallman...
...Tigris. In another quarter of the capital the King dedicated a 1,250-unit housing project which boasts schools, a mosque and "gossip squares," where Iraqis may indulge their favorite national pastime. The housing program's long-range goal: 400,000 dwellings-new roofs for one-third of Iraq's population...
...More Slaves. In town after town, Iraqi villagers slit the throats of fatted animals to honor the visiting King. He opened the first 16 miles (Baghdad to Al Mahmudiya) of a projected 1,250-mile roadbuilding program; he dedicated a $12 million, 25,000-spindle textile plant at Mosul, Iraq's second city, which under the program was also receiving a sugar factory, a bridge, a housing project and a new vocational-training school. On a 148,000-acre tract 20 miles from the site of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre...
...Iraq's development program is a daring gamble against time. A whopping 70% of the country's more than $200 million-a-year oil royalties goes to the National Development Board,* headed by Premier Nuri himself, and including on its ten-man board two foreign experts, one American, one British. Its budget is bigger than the government's; the board is vested with massive authority, but it has used it well and sagely. There are complaints of corruption, and of politicking in the allocation of projects to please powerful sheiks, but on balance, Western observers find...
...Change." "In Iraq today," said a senior Iraqi official, "there is only one source of wealth: oil. We propose to use our oil income while we have it to create other sources of wealth. We aim to change everything. But we propose to do it by evolution, not revolution. Nasser's way is not our way." As the only Arab member of the Baghdad Pact, Iraq...