February 10, 1981 (vol. 91, iss. 112) • Page Image 4
… Middle East is full of dictatorships whose leaders use torture and terror to maintain power. Iraq is a perfect example. . UNTIL ITS WAR with Iran, Iraq was, to most. Americans, simply one of those Arab oil…
… Iraq's only legal political par- ty,. and its ideology is the only approved ideology. The Ba'ath raises Arab nationalism above all else in importance. Its narrow, xenophobic chauvinism is frightingly…
… who are Christian, non-Arab and, in fact, pre-date the Arabs in Iraq by over 2,500 years. But how did such a large number of non- Arabs end up living inside an Arab state? We must look back about 60…
… hopes of autonomy for the Kurds and Assyrian-Chaldeans were crushed. SINCE THAT TIME, it has been the policy of the Iraqi government to make "Arab Iraq" truly Arab; to suppress the national identity By…
… David Holzel of Kurds, Assyrian-Chaldeans, Jews; and other large non-Arab groups. Their progress towards this goal has met with stiff resistance. The Kurds rebelled against their Arab masters for most of…
… in Algiers. In return for withdra.wing support for the Kurds, the Shah was given the Shatt al-Arab waterway and three Persian Gulf islands. (Last September, Hussein reneged on the treaty and attacked…
… thousands who have reached America, show that oppression by the Ba'ath and forced Arabization of non-Arabs continues in Iraq today. ARABS ARE BEING settled in the north on lands where Kurds and Assyrian…































