Word: iraqization
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Last week the Middle Eastern Switzerland turned out instead to be a little Egypt. It threatened Iraq Petroleum Co., producer of one-fifth the Middle East's oil, with confiscatory fines, warned that it might nationalize the oil company's Lebanese properties...
Africa, Iran and Iraq. Some of these recruits to slavery are captured or kidnaped in their native villages; others are lured to Mecca on alleged pilgrimages, then sold in the slave market of the Holy City. Most have to be ferried into Arabia across the Red Sea or Persian Gulf. If the British Navy, under the proposed "piracy" clause, resumed its vigorous, pre-World War I slave patrol in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, this lucrative traffic would be severely hampered...
...stopped work for 24 hours, and stopped talking for five minutes, in protest. About the only operation in the country unaffected by the strike was the daily passage of ships through the canal, which the government's control agency ordered to continue as usual. In Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, Western-owned pipelines stopped pumping oil for most of a day. In Libya, police used tear gas to break up a pro-Egyptian demonstration. Nasser's propaganda news agency proclaimed the organization at a secret session "somewhere in Jordan," of an Arab underground stretching from the Atlantic...
...nonwhite" nations of the world lined up against Britain and France in a virtually solid front. Iraq, Britain's strongest ally in the Middle East, announced that it "stands beside Egypt." And from New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Nehru sharply chided the "warlike gestures" of Britain and France...
...houses. Even before we left Tacoma, he used to go out to a tavern some nights and leave me at home with baby. I told him I wouldn't stand for that, and I asked if he'd leave me at home alone when we got to Iraq. 'Oh no,' he said, 'I promise I'll never leave you one night alone.' But when we got to Baghdad, he was off almost every night, leaving me with his parents, who didn't speak any English-and I didn't speak...