| Show The Salt Lake Tribune Iraq Shell Game: Where’s tk’Pea? By Baker Marsh Chicago Daily News Writer Following the shifts in power in Iraq this week was something like watching the old shell game at a county fair Sunday November 24 A 17 19G3 the Baathist Party who had controlled the ousted government elements who admire President Abdel Gamal Nasser of the UAR and some independents THE BEWILDERING story goes back a long way but a good place to start in the present set" up is 1958 On Feb 14 of that year two By week's end it looked like cousins King Hussein of JorIhe payoff was the dan and King Faisal of Iraq son of a tailor named Abdel both in their 20s and both opSalam Arif posed to the power of Nasser HE HEADED THE third and proclaimed a federal Arab state last shift 6f power to occur withNasser countered Feb 21 in a week and named himself announring that Egypt and president a position he had held Syria had joined in the United before when he was considered Arab Republic You knew that the little pea that means the payoff was somewhere— but where? a figurehead The major question now is The next step came on July whether he is still a figurehead 15 of that busy year of 1958 On Arif then a colonel pr whether he is in firm control that day led his first armored brigade of the government i into Baghdad stormed the I coali- - Royal Palace and shattered the He named a iion cabinet made up of his monarchy military associates FAISAL HIS family and his t It also includes members of followers were put to a bloody 4lCTO in '73 21-m- xL fi? 1 ! r death L ’V 1 —Associated Fress Wirephoto Manipuarmy general Abdel Karim Abdel Salam Arif Kassam became premier He lates shell game power pea rewarded Arif by making him closed Kassam commuted the deputy premier and minister of the interior— which means con- sentence and in another' November this one in 1961 he ordered trol of the police Arif freed There was one hitch to this That was Kassam’s fatal mispartnership take Arif had become associatKassam hated Nasser while ed with the Ba’athists in Syria Arif admired the Egyptian who and Iraq’ attempted an agree- when himself a colonel had led a successful revolt against the monarchy in his own country An Deacon Charged In Murder Cage ARIF VISITED Nasser and came back spouting his wonders c This outraged Kassam and in v Reuters News Agency ‘ November of that remarkable An Aryear of 1958 he fired the colonel BEIRUT Nov 23 from his government posts and menian deacon Isaac Demirid-jia- n sent him into a form of exile as -has been arrested and —Associated Press W to E(pnn But Arif never went to Bonn He turned up in Baghdad that same month He was arrested on charges of treason and of trying to kill Kas— Associated Press Wlrcphoto sam He was tried and sentenced to death Abdel Karim Kassam Lost real operator FOR SOME reason never dis-- 4 irephoto Abdel Gamal Nasser Ik he winner of Iraq shell’ game? 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