Word: bins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...placid, Lilliputian Persian Gulf sheikdom of Sharjah was unexpectedly disturbed last week by the thud of hand grenades and the rattle of rifle fire. Former Sheik Saqr bin Sultan, deposed in 1965 in a peaceful coup, had returned from exile in Cairo. With two truckloads of Bedouins, he stormed Sharjah's blue-and-white palace in an attempt to overthrow his ruling cousin Sheik Khalid bin Mohammed. In a brief battle with tribesmen loyal to Khalid, Saqr was captured. But Sheik Khalid was trapped and murdered before he could be rescued...
...million subsidy. When London demurred, the neighboring sheiks-who are all absolute monarchs-reluctantly began for the first time to negotiate with one another on a political union. After 18 months of discussion, the Union of Arab Emirates was formed, with Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan as the first president...
...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...
...scooped out of volcanic rock or sunbaked sand. Hardly has it braked to a stop when a tall, bearded figure hops out, one hand holding his bright ima-ma, or turban, against the airstream, the other fingering the silver kunjar, or dagger, at his waist. Brown-eyed, gentle Qabus bin Said, 30, absolute monarch of Oman, has arrived on another tour of his sultanate (see color pages). Through such visits the Sultan hopes to strengthen the loyalty of local sheiks and villagers who have never seen their ruler. Equally important, the trips are designed to help Qabus learn about...
Under the despotic reign of his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, Muscat and Oman* as the country was known before Qabus shortened the name-was not far removed from the 15th century. Fearful that social and economic development would corrupt traditional Islamic values, Said turned his land, perched on the southeastern hump of Arabia near the gates of the Persian Gulf, into a 112,000-sq.-mi. jail...