Word: abu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day Hussein told a press conference that "responsible authorities in the United Arab Republic, mainly in Syria," knew in advance of the plot to assassinate Majali. As long ago as last spring, the Jordanian government accused young Playboy General Ali Abu Nuwar, 38, Hussein's onetime buddy as army chief of staff, of planning Majali's assassination from his exile in Nasser's Damascus...
...being granted all over the Middle East. Examples: ¶ In Yemen the American Overseas Investment Corp. was exploring a 10,000-sq.-mi. concession in the northwestern coastal plain. It had beaten out the Japanese and the Italians for Yemen rights. ¶ In the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Compagnie Franchise des Petroles brought in a well that tested out at 2,400 bbl. daily...