Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Arab leaders, Iraq's late Nuri asSaid probably led all the rest in the bitterness of his public excoriations of Israel. But fate appears to have played a last weird trick on the murdered Iraqi strongman. Out of Jerusalem last week came a strange story: Nuri Pasha's only survivor may be a 16-year-old Jewish boy now living in an Israeli border kibbutz...
...Pinch. In San Benedetto di Verona, Italy, a circus crowd watched Strongman Giuseppe Armandola take on four members of the audience who came forth to challenge him, saw Giuseppe flatten two of them before the others overwhelmed him, soon learned that the winners were cops and Giuseppe an escaped convict...
...there was a sense of an underlying drive, the hint of a trickier side to this strongman that left doubts...
...Rubaiya, was out of the country at the time; he was Iraq's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. By 6 a.m. the radio was trumpeting: "Citizens of Baghdad, the Monarchy is dead! The Republic is here!" Only one thing remained to be done: find Iraq's old strongman, pro-Western Nuri asSaid, 70, who had lived up to his nickname of "The Fox" by managing to escape...
Throughout his long life, in which he had served 14 times as Premier and for 27 years as Iraq's strongman, Nuri had lived both dangerously and adroitly. "The man," he insisted, "has not been born who can assassinate me." He knew he was hated by many, regarded as a "British stooge" in the kingdom set up by the British...