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July 14
1989: Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour
[ 2007-07-03 19:31 ]

July 14

July 14
Thousands of revellers filled the streets
1989: Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour

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About 500 people have been involved in scuffles in the Place de la Bastille in Paris.

Hundreds of thousands of revellers took to the streets of the French capital last night to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

Most people enjoyed the carnival atmosphere in the city but a group of trouble-makers fought amongst themselves, harassed foreign TV crews and threw stones at the police as they tried to restore order.

Last night was the official opening of the concert hall, Opera Bastille, which has been built on the site of the Bastille prison - where the French Revolution began in 1789.

Celebrations carried on into the small hours of this morning in the biggest street party since France was liberated after World War II.

There was traffic chaos as people danced in the streets, wearing the red, white and blue of the revolutionary tricolour and letting off fireworks.

As well as the traditional military march down the Champs Elysees this morning, the bicentennial anniversary has been marked by a spectacular parade of dancers, musicians and floats from around the world this evening.

Heads of state from 40 countries and a global television audience of 500m watched the procession - devised and organised by Jean-Paul Goude - down the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde.

Costing ?m, the Marseillaise procession was based on the theme of the rights of Man and world music. It culminated in a powerfulrenditionof the French national anthem - also called the Marseillaise - by opera singer Jesse Norman.

Some world leaders were in the city for the G7 World Economic Summit opened by President Mitterand at the Louvre pyramid in the afternoon.

July 14
King Faisal II of Iraq is believed to have been killed during the coup

1958: Coup in Iraq sparks jitters in Middle East

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The A group of Iraqi army officers have staged a coup in Iraq and overthrown the monarchy.

Baghdad Radio announced the Army has liberated the Iraqi people from domination by a corrupt group put in power by "imperialism".

From now on Iraq would be a republic that would "maintain ties with other Arab countries". It said some 12,000 Iraqi troops based in neighbouring Jordan have been ordered to return.

Major-General Abdul Karim el Qasim is Iraq's new prime minister, defence minister and commander-in-chief.

Baghdad Radio also announced that Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Nuri es Said, prime minister of the Iraq-Jordan Federation, had been assassinated.

King Faisal reported killed

It said the body of the Crown Prince, the powerful uncle of 23-year-old King Faisal, was hanging outside the Defence Ministry for all to see.

Reports from the US Embassy in Baghdad say the British embassy has been ransacked and set on fire. The ambassador, Sir Michael Wright, and his wife were held at the embassy until late this afternoon when they were released. They are now in a Baghdad hotel.

Unconfirmed reports suggest King Faisal himself has also been killed.

His cousin, King Hussein of Jordan, has declared himself head of the Arab Federation - the five-month alliance between Iraq and Jordan - in the "absence" of King Faisal.

In a broadcast to his subjects, King Hussein condemned the coup as the work of outsiders.

While Iraqis are celebrating on the streets of the capital, Baghdad, the news is a cause for concern for western powers worried about their oil interests and instability in the region.

Mixed reaction in Arab world

The insurrection was probably inspired by a similar uprising staged in Egypt by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser six years ago. In February this year he formed a political union between Egypt and Syria known as the United Arab Republic (UAR).

Radio stations in the UAR are naturally delighted by news of the Iraq coup.

But leaders of Jordan and Lebanon fear it might inspire Arab nationalist rebellions in their own states and have appealed to Britain and the United States to send troops to their countries.

The US President Dwight D Eisenhower is said to be "extremely disturbed" by the Iraqi revolt and has called of an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council.

Officials in Washington fear the Iraqi coup will mean the end of the Baghdad Pact whose members include Turkey, Persia and Pakistan. It was intended to stem the influence of the Soviet Union in the region.

There are fears the Iraq coup will have a domino effect and that the pro-Western oil regimes of Kuwait, Bahrain and the Trucial States may fall to Arab nationalists.

Vocabulary:
 

rendition :a performance of a musical or dramatic work(表演;演唱)








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