Word: iraqization
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...most Arab lands of the Middle East, young army officers with revolutionary social ideas and anti-Western feelings may be riding high. But they have yet to unseat Iraq's tough Strongman Nuri es-Said, 68, the coolheaded camelback raider of Lawrence of Arabia's World War I anti-Turk desert revolt, who boasts: "I was risking my life for the Cause of Arab independence before Nasser was out of his swaddling clothes...
Nuri has often been accused of being a British stooge. It took courage for him to keep Iraq in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, along with Britain, after Britain invaded Egypt. Nuri declared public sympathy for Egypt, and sought to prove his devotion to the Arab cause by outdoing everyone else in crying that Israel must be wiped out. All the while, Egyptian, Syrian and Moscow radios launched fierce propaganda attacks against him, in similarity of phrasing that suggested collaboration. Last month bloody rioting erupted in Baghdad and An Najaf, and Radio Cairo shouted that "the traitor" was doomed...
...Demanded, in the face of two previous turndowns, that Syria cooperate to allow repair of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline cut by saboteurs during the Egyptian hostilities. Declared Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr.: "Unless work begins immediately . . . the oil situation will be aggravated, which means in human terms cold and hunger not only in Europe but in Asia and South America...
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...course, is expecting that headlines from Suez or Hungary or Iraq or South Africa are going to change overnight. But even if the President and the Prime Minister have no pat solutions to the world's dilemmas--and the chances are they do not--a more realistic relationship between the two nations is likely to evolve if each leader teaches the other a few of the facts of modern life...