Word: abu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheikdom of Abu Dhabi is not one of our heaviest circulation areas, but TIME has had an impact on the Persian Gulf state of 50,000. An article we ran four years ago described efforts by University of Arizona scientists to grow vegetables in the desert. The story so intrigued Sheik Zaid bin Sultan al Nahayan, that he gave the university's Environmental Research Laboratory more than $3,000,000 to build an experimental "controlled environment greenhouse" on the tiny island of Saadiyat off the Abu Dhabi coast...
...desalinated sea water, went into full production last week. Eighteen varieties of fruit and vegetable were planted, including cabbages, watermelons, turnips, lettuce, tomatoes and squash.Sheik Zaid confident that there will soon be enough home-grown produce to satisfy his domestic market, can now entertain the notion of exporting fresh Abu Dhabian vegetables to his neighbors...
...would be ironic if the army brought about the downfall of Sadat, a one-time career officer who managed to come far from the little village of Mit Abu al Kom. Sadat's father was a humble civilian clerk with the army; young Sadat dreamed of wearing the pips of an officer on his shoulders. Despite a passion for movies, he got acceptable grades in secondary school after the family moved to Cairo's Kubri al Quba section. Finally he secured an appointment to the military academy at Abbasiyah, which had just begun to accept sons of the lower classes...
...chalet at St. Moritz last week, the Shah of Iran conferred a medal, the first-class Taj, or crown, on his finance minister Jamshid Amuzegar. The dapper, Cornell-trained Amuzegar had led the six oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf-Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar-in wresting an enormous increase in payments from 23 international oil companies, 20 of them American. In fact the Shah, who had guided the negotiations over the gold telephones installed at his desk and bedside in the royal palace, had good reason to be pleased with himself as well...
...score of oil companies operating in the Middle East and North Africa are negotiating as a group* -a precedent made possible when the Justice Department agreed to waive the antitrust laws for U.S. participants. The companies are confronting representatives of the main oil-producing nations: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Venezuela. In their quest for money the producing countries can bargain with muscle because they can always threaten to cut off shipments to Europe, which gets 85% of its oil from them, and to Japan, which depends on the Middle East...