Word: abu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz was getting the heave-ho in Iraq, the Middle East's tiny, oil-soaked sheikdom of Abu Dhabi was going through a similar-though less surprising-upheaval. Sheik Shakhbout bin Sultan, 61, who had been in power longer (since 1928) than any other Middle East ruler, was suddenly shipped off to nearby Bahrain Island one day last week, and his youngest brother, 46-year-old Sheik Zaid bin Sultan, became the sheikdom's new headman...
When completed next year, it will be the largest sculpture in history. Already it more than doubles the height of Ramses II's portraits at Abu Simbel and is bigger than the biggest Buddha, a 175-ft.-high statue in Afghanistan. Lee's sabre thrusts 50 ft., and his battle charger, Traveller, travels 141 ft. from nose to tail. When finished, the sculpture will loom 190 ft. by 305 ft., soaring higher than a 30-story building...
...under way on the Euphrates River in Turkey. Along with these projects, worth $300 million altogether, Impregilo recently outbid an Anglo-German consortium for a $250 million hydroelectric project on Peru's Mantaro River. Tackling smaller-paying jobs as well, Impregilo is helping move the temples of Abu Simbel before the area is fully flooded...
...Royalist forces are just as determined. They recruit retired officers from France, Belgium, Britain, Pakistan, Iran and Jordan, receive arms and financial help from Saudi Arabia, Britain and Iran. Even the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdoms are unstinting. Recently, a Royalist Yemen emissary visited Sheik Shakhbut, ruler of Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf, and asked for a contribution of 5,000 pounds sterling. He walked away with ?100,000. "You are all astonished?" the sheik shrugged to his advisers. "Do you know how many cases of ammunition ?100,000 will buy, and how long they can keep Nasser from...
Early one morning pro-Jadid troops and armored units rolled up Damascus' fashionable Abu Rummana Street, and began blasting away at Hafez' home and the tough desert troops guarding it. For hours the battle raged-interrupted only by one brief pause when the rebels permitted Hafez' wife and a wounded daughter to escape. Outmanned and outgunned, the defenders were finally whittled down to three men, who came out with hands up and holding a white flag. They were gunned down in their tracks, and a placard hung on the front of the demolished home: "This...