Word: abu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudi move, made independently of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and followed by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, was announced at a meeting of six OPEC states in Abu Dhabi. For Saudi Arabia, by far the largest producer, the complex new policy works like this...
...estimated membership of 6,700, of whom some 2,000 are active fighters. Al Fatah?an acronym derived from the transposed initials for Palestine Liberation Movement in Arabic?was founded in 1956 by a group of young Palestinians in Gaza. Among the students was Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar), who has led the organization since 1968. Al Fatah has a broad base of middle-class support and no definable ideology other than the liberation of Palestine. Since its first raid into Israel on New Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly routine guerrilla missions. The most...
...view of its members' differences. The Arab countries see oil as a political weapon to use against Israel; the non-Arab states see oil strictly as a commercial commodity. Within the Arab bloc, the radical states (Algeria, Libya and Iraq) often have political battles with the feudal monarchies (Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia). Iran and Iraq are on the verge of hostilities because of border disputes...
...markets, where it is badly needed-and, no one seemed disconcerted last week that Europe and not the U.S. had received the first major chunk. There are a lot of petrodollars to go around. Kuwait recently has begun pumping money into shares of unidentified U.S. and European companies, and Abu Dhabi plans to buy a major interest in a big office building in London. Sultan Qabus bin Said of Oman even got into the act last week: he reportedly paid $4 million for a German hotel and 4,000 surrounding acres. He wants to turn it into a summer residence...
...upper Egypt, her exhausting itinerary included treks to the distant temples of Luxor, Karnak and Abu Simbel, with the Aswan dam thrown in. Through it all, she asked enthusiastic questions, and the ordeal was considerably mitigated by the warmth of the Sadats. Said the Egyptian President: "You are a part of Henry's family here...