Word: baksheesh
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...terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray cows poked their noses into ruins that Du Camp was conscientiously measuring. It was fun to discuss theology with prelates of obscure religions, or the technique of the bastinado with corrupt judges (it takes three months for the flesh...
...arrange a new formula under which Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the U.S. will share with Britain the rental costs of the British base on Malta. Other NATO powers will not be able to use the island-unless, of course, they are prepared to part with additional baksheesh-but they at least won Mintoff's guarantee that Malta will not provide military facilities for members of the Warsaw Pact...
...Somalia's ten parties argue vociferously in gritty coffee shops -a rare sight in a New Africa that is moving steadily toward one-party government systems. There is spirited debate in Parliament, and although the commonest sound on the streets is still the beggar's cry for "Baksheesh!," there is plenty of free and strident speech to counterpoint...
...Baksheesh Back. The King offered a new Cabinet balanced between four princes and six commoners. The key post of Finance went to Saud's brother Prince Talal, whose powerful voice in the family councils had cinched Feisal's rise and Saud's demotion two years before. The new Minister of Petroleum, Mines and Education is Abdullah Tariki, the aggressively nationalistic University of Texas-trained geologist who in Arab councils argues that all the Arab countries should be getting a larger share of oil-company profits...
...shake-up had a political lesson to offer, it was rather that austerity does not go down well with the princes of Saudi Arabia-especially in a year when oil revenues are expected to rise from $304 million to $320 million. Sighed one Arabian merchant happily: "The King of baksheesh is back on his throne...