Word: abu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strength Without Strains. More commonly, continued surpluses reflect national economies that are gaining strength without strains. Copper-rich Zambia's regular surpluses have enabled the government to improve roads, education and health facilities. The oil-producing Arab states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar amassed hefty surpluses as usual in 1967, despite some losses from the Mideast war. Instead of squandering the money on palaces, limousines and concubines, the rulers of the four Persian Gulf states today split the oil-based riches between imported consumer goods (food, clothing, shelter) for their populace, new facilities such as water...
...mile-long lake formed by the Aswan High Dam similarly threatened to engulf their sanctuary, the Egyptian government had it dismantled into 650 pieces in 1962. The temple was offered to the U.S. in gratitude for a $16 million U.S. contribution toward saving older and larger temples, including Abu Simbel...
Although Moslem women in such countries as Tunisia and Lebanon are clamoring for equality, Scholar-Sheik Abu Zahara defended the double-standard system of polygamy on the ground that "it has put a limit to the chaotic side of social life." He also upheld the essential humanity of such traditional Arab punishments as cutting off the hands of thieves and flogging adulterers. The pain is acute and the experience humiliating, the Sheik admitted, but it does not last as long as the Western way of punishment, imprisonment...
...seven British-protected Trucial States that cradle the Persian Gulf, Abu Dhabi is the fourth largest oil producer in the Gulf; this year it expects to earn $70 million in oil revenues, which by 1970 are likely to reach an annual $125 million. Yet under Shakhbout, Abu Dhabi's 20,000 people seldom saw a cent of the riches...
...under his bed in his threadbare mud-walled palace. When his bedsprings began bulging, he transferred his fortune to gasoline cans in the palace dungeon. Not until the cans rotted from the humidity and rats began nibbling at his millions did Shakhbout finally switch his hoard to two Abu Dhabi banks...