Word: buraimi
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...Britain. Here and there they reached total disagreement, e.g., the U.S. turned down Britain's request that it join the Baghdad Pact of anti-Communist countries in the Middle East; the U.S. declined to intervene in Britain's oil row with Saudi Arabia at the remote Buraimi Oasis (TIME...
...Buraimi Oasis. A small but prickly thorn, the ownership of this sun-scorched cluster of eight scrubby villages (with oil riches below), has resulted in border scraps between Saudi Arabia and two British-protected sheikdoms. The British charge bitterly that the Saudis offered an $84 million bribe to one of the Buraimi chieftains. The British want the U.S. to restrain the Saudis, who have got rich quick through a yearly income of $250 million in royalties from the U.S. oil company Aramco. The State Department says that the U.S. cannot tell Saudi Arabia what...
...more than a year, Britain has carried on a sort of comic-opera blockade around the oasis of Buraimi. a cluster of 8,000 Arabs in mud-walled villages not far from the Persian Gulf. Last week the blockade abruptly lost its comic flavor. There was shooting in the desert and blood on the sand...
Fired by the belief that oil may lie under Buraimi's sand, strong-willed...
King Ibn Saud claims Buraimi as part of Saudi Arabia; and Britain, as "protector" of Trucial Oman, claims it for a Trucial Oman Sheik and the Sultan of Muscat. Since the summer of 1952, the claimants had fought their siege with angry words and glowering looks. Ibn Saud sent Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into...