"But this will mean the end of McMahon and Tate!"
1936 : (IRAQ : BIRTH OF TARIQ AZIZ, FUTURE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF IRAQ) Tariq Aziz (also spelled Tareq Aziz) was born Mikhail Yuhanna to a Chaldean Christian family in northern Iraq in 1936. He studied English at the Baghdad College of Fine Arts and later worked as a journalist. - http://cbc.ca/news/features/iraq/keyfigures.html.
1960s : (IRAQ & SYRIA : TARIQ AZIZ JOINS BAATH PARTY , LIVES IN SYRIA AND BECOMES AN ASSOCIATE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN) Tariq Aziz joined the Baathist movement shortly after graduating and spent much of the 1960s in Syria. He became an associate of Saddam Hussein during this time, and has been loyal to him ever since. - http://cbc.ca/news/features/iraq/keyfigures.html.
1968 : (IRAQ : TARIQ AZIZ BECOMES EDITOR OF BAATH PARTY NEWSPAPER AFTER COUP) Tariq Aziz became editor of the Baath party newspaper following the coup that brought it into power in 1968. He later was appointed cultural and information minister.- http://cbc.ca/news/features/iraq/keyfigures.html.
1979 : (IRAQ : TARIQ AZIZ TAKES OVER FOREIGN POLICY FOR HUSSEIN ALTHOUGH NOT FOREIGN MINISTER AT THE TIME) When Saddam took power in 1979, Tariq Aziz ran the country’s foreign policy, even though he was only later appointed foreign minister in 1983. - http://cbc.ca/news/features/iraq/keyfigures.html.
1983 : (MARC RICH FLEES TO EUROPE — See MAUGEIN, CHIRAC, IRAQI OFFICIAL TARIQ AZIZ) Mr. Maugein, a billionaire with close ties to Jacques Chirac, is a longtime associate of the trader and former fugitive Marc Rich, who fled to Europe in 1983 to avoid answering charges of racketeering, illegal trading and dodging a tax-bill of $48 million. (Mr. Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton in his final hours in the White House). Mr. Maugein was also a close contact of Tariq Aziz, with whom he met regularly. He is the non-executive chairman of Soco International Plc., a publicly listed London-based petroleum exploration/production company, which goes into markets the majors tend to skip — Mongolia, Vietnam, North Korea, Libya and Yemen. ...
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