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...some success. Several new housing cities are rising alongside the Suez Canal as part of a rebuilding program that goes hand in hand with canal renovations: Faisal City, named for the late King of Saudi Arabia; Sabah City for the Sheik of Kuwait; Zayed City in honor of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan...
...clearly antiCommunist, which were neutralist in foreign policy, with a general implication that they were also underdeveloped economically and usually not of the white race. A later euphemism was the L.D.C.s-the less developed countries. (A grammatical purist might object that all of the countries in the world except Abu Dhabi, which has the highest real income per capita, are by definition L.D.C.s.) Now, as the number of countries on earth has kept increasing and as the disparities in resources become more and more spectacular, people are speaking of a Fourth World, meaning Bangladesh, India, Uganda and many others deep...
...Indochina War, was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in the Pictures-of-the-Year competition. Adams also won prizes for several individual pictures, including a portrait of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (TIME, May 20) and a photo of straining oarsmen in a boat race in Abu Dhabi (TIME...
...shrinking demand, oil producers are taking in more money now than they were a few years ago. Yet the more production falls, the closer OPEC comes to an exquisitely difficult political problem: how to apportion cuts within the cartel so that no member suffers more than others. Already Abu Dhabi has publicly complained about the fact that the cartel has taken no steps to allocate production cuts. In these circumstances, the stresses within OPEC can only intensify...
...have responded by undertaking weapons-expansion programs. Iraq has already received MIG fighters, heavy artillery and the Scud surface-to-surface missiles, which can be fitted with nuclear warheads, from the Soviets; in addition to the American A-4 Skyhawks, Kuwait is ordering Mirages from France; even tiny Abu Dhabi, a member sheikdom of the United Arab Emirates, has obtained C-130 transports and Mirages...