Word: bin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miserable little Qatar (pop. 35,000), a sun-seared knuckle of sand and stone jutting into the Persian Gulf, was a latecomer in the Middle East oil boom. But when oil poured out in 1949 and the gold started pouring in, wizened old (69) Sheik Ali bin Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani had no trouble adjusting his spending habits to those of the other sheiks of Araby...
...debts (about $14 million at last count) with Doha's local bankers; he just could not make ends meet, even though he got $12.5 million from Qatar's $50 million annual oil revenue. Soon Qatar's anxious bankers were backing young (30) Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad, Ali's nephew, who thought he was in line for the throne, and was pressing the old man to step down. The British, who watch over Qatar as a protectorate, took a hand when they detected signs of simmering insurrection among the Sheik's long-suffering subjects...
...insists that despite Singapore's overwhelmingly Chinese population (Chinese outnumber Malays six to one), the island's future lies in joining the Federation of Malaya. With this in view. Lee has made Malay the official language, has appointed as chief of state a Malay personage, Inche Yusof bin Ishak. So far, the Federation itself has been wary: Singapore's 1,200,000 Chinese would upset the Federation's racial balance, put the Malays in a minority...
...afternoon champagne. He watches her youthful exuberance and realizes that he's too old to love. His weakness is dramatized in a confrontation scene with his pathological daughter in which she demands more money and chides him for neglecting his wife, who has been in the looney bin for twenty-three years. Somewhere in the course of the day, Doris is fired...
Died. His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B.. G.C.M.G., G.B.E., the Sultan of Zanzibar, 81, who had reigned over Britain's East African island protectorate since 1911; of a heart attack; in his royal palace. One of the most benign of small-time despots, the British-admiring Sultan was highly regarded by the quarter-million inhabitants of his spice isle, most of them Moslem blacks known as "God's Poor," the rest chiefly higher-class Arabs descended from conquerors of yore...