Word: bahrain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates...
...this may only be the beginning. Bond's publisher received an approving letter from an organization on the Arabian gulf known as the Bahrain Dead Cat Society (slogan: FELIX MORTE). The society's letterhead notes that it is affiliated with the North American Dead Dog Society, the Kenyan Institute for Crushed Aardvarks and the Fiji Squashed Squid Squad...
...green malachite case, estimated to cost at least $1.5 million. Between the lowly spud and the regal ice are such newlywed staples as goblets, china, tableware, pots and pans, a microwave oven, a vacuum cleaner-but no toaster. Nonessentials included a 2-ft.-long solid gold dhow from Bahrain and a Steuben glass bowl from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. In the campy department are matching terry bathrobes with Charles and Diana stitched on their backs prizefighter style, a gift from Bridesmaid Clementine Hambro...
...emphasize his personal concern about stability in the Middle East, Reagan invited to the White House the ambassadors from five moderate Arab states: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Sudan and Jordan. Sudanese Ambassador Omer Salih Eissa told the President that there was a widespread perception in the Arab world that the U.S. was associated with the raid; Arabs were looking to him to put a checkrein on Israel, primarily by limiting arms sales. Reagan responded by saying that "no one was more surprised than I" by the air strike. "This tragedy," as he called it, had resulted from the ongoing hostilities...
Global money flows freely, neatly skirting legal impediments of governments along the way and eventually arriving at its destination ready to do business. Some of the most successful repositories of this stateless money are the offshore branches of major U.S. banks in such out-of-the-way places as Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. In all, more than $1 trillion is held by banks and borrowers outside the U.S. in offshore banking bases set up by American and foreign banks...