IRAQ: The Pasha

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Short, plump and natty in a tan gabardine suit, Nuri asSaid, 13 times Prime Minister of Iraq, stepped down jauntily from his Vickers Viscount. His lips slightly parted, his hooded eyes darting back and forth as if not to miss a detail, he looked almost as if he were tasting the happy occasion.

Nuri, as he returned from Karachi, was a man who had recovered from his Suez crisis. The only Arab leader who has formally allied his country with the West, he found himself isolated last October when his chief...