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StepFeed
February 3, 2018
Young Saddam joined the Ba'ath Party in 1957 and played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the Ba'ath party to power in Iraq. As an Iraqi president, he was notorious for engaging his country in two wars with both Iran and Kuwait, and for brutally suppressing uprisings of religious minorities and KurdsÃâà...
Kurdistan24
February 3, 2018
As Pravda correspondent, Primakov came to know Saddam Hussein, following the 1968 coup that brought the Baathists to power. Moscow then developed close ties with Baghdad. In 1990, after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and at the direction of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Primakov sought unsuccessfully toÃâà...
StepFeed
February 2, 2018
Young Saddam joined the Ba'ath Party in 1957 and played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the Ba'ath party to power in Iraq. As an Iraqi president, he was notorious for engaging his country in two wars with both Iran and Kuwait, and for brutally suppressing uprisings of religious minorities and KurdsÃâà...
HuffPost
September 13, 2017
Just before their 1968 coup d'etat, my dad felt helpless and had to tender his resignation to President Abdul Rahman Arif, but this attempt to keep out of politics proved short lived. Dad went back to Baghdad University to do his Master's Degree after the Law School launched its first postgraduate program.
New York Magazine
May 30, 2017
General Manuel Noriega, who ruled Panama with an iron fist from 1983 until he was ousted by U.S. forces in 1989, died on Monday. He was believed to be 83, though his exact birth date is unknown. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela announced the news, tweeting, “The death of Manuel A.
Politico
December 30, 2016
7, 1977, by President Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos, commander of Panama's National Guard and the country's de facto ruler, turned over control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians. Torrijos had seized power in a 1968 coup. Throngs of Panamanians celebrated the transfer of the strategic 51-mileÃâà...
