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...occasion was the state visit of King Saud of Saudi Arabia to the neighboring sheikdom of Kuwait. A Connecticut-sized chunk of desert bordering on the Persian Gulf, Kuwait is so rich from oil that it literally does not know what to do with all its money. Kuwait's portly ruler, Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah, has an annual income of $200 million but modestly keeps only one wife and a single Cadillac. Saud has a yearly income of $320 million, keeps four wives, some 100 concubines, countless cars...
cannon. This kind of firepower might yet require the direct action of the U.S. Marines as well as a sizable chunk of the rest of the U.S.'s ready power...
What set the M.P.s off anew was a 567-page government report on India's protracted negotiations with the Chinese. The report exhaustively proved India's historic title to the disputed chunk of mountainous Kashmir borderlands, as even the Indian Communist Party was forced to concede. But Peking's only answer was a new map of the area-claiming 2,000 more square miles...
...being held by his mother (now dead) in a tight clutch of terror while police raided their home. His father Nathan was a tavern owner, and he appears, in one of Berman's best routines, as a militantly bourgeois delicatessen keeper who rough-talkingly tenders a chunk of his life savings so that his son can go to acting school; the sketch ends with the father's soft-spoken request to the newborn star not to change his name. Berman actually went to Chicago's Goodman Theater acting school-and did not change his name. Nathan Berman...
Amid the tumult of a crumbling continent, one massive chunk of Africa sleeps on. It is the Africa of Portugal, oldest of all the colonial powers...