Word: bahrein
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...first setback for Nasser came in Bahrein, a tiny cluster of Persian Gulf islands where Sheik Isa bin Sulman al Khalifa unconditionally reaffirmed all existing agreements under which Whitehall uses his prosperous kingdom as a military and diplomatic pied-a-terre. Seemingly, Nasser-style socialism should have little appeal for Bahreinis, who boast the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, ten free, modern hospitals, electricity in 95% of their homes. For all his benevolence, however, the plump, diminutive Sheik is an unabashed autocrat who prefers to rule his 182,000 subjects exactly as his ancestors have since 1783, when...
...with excitement and punctuated largely by exclamation marks: "Rome looked swell in the late twilight!" "Those Italian military uniforms are wonderful!" "I loved Italy, but Greece takes the cake for magnificent beauty!" "The Near East reeks with romance!" "Just think-tomorrow I'll breakfast in Basra, lunch in Bahrein and have my dinner at Sharjah...
Britain quickly alerted 7,000 paratroopers, infantrymen and R.A.F. units in Cyprus, Kenya and Bahrein. From Mombasa, Kenya, a strike force of seven warships including the aircraft carrier Centaur with 45 fighter-bombers and helicopters aboard, sailed to join six British vessels already patrolling the Persian Gulf. "Just small-scale precautionary measures," said the Defense Ministry. Added the Foreign Office, confident that the show of force would be effective: "We don't expect any trouble...
...trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fighters, set up his own company four years ago when Kinley retired. Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices, Asgar ("Boots") Hansen and Edward ("Coots'") Matthews, have tamed 50 wells in Bahrein, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oilfield fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals, fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms, and often collect as much as $20,000 plus expenses...
...amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate that they could still defend the vital areas of the Middle East that are the source...