Word: iraqui
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...repercussions could be widespread. Coca-Cola, the most popular soft drink among teetotaling Arabs, has 29 bottling plants, 139,000 dealers and a $50 million investment in the Arab world. Egypt immediately prepared to shift nine bottling plants from Coke to something called "Nasr (for victory) Cola." When Iraqui-born Mohammed Mahdi, head of the Manhattan-based American-Arab Action Committee, got word of the boycott in Beirut, he ceremoniously emptied his Coke into a carton...