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Landing in the evening in Kuwait, the businessmen passed over brilliant flares of burning gas from acres of oilfields. In Dubai they toured the Persian Gulf harbor in the Sheik's dhow. The hour-long audience with Faisal (see THE WORLD) took place beneath crystal chandeliers in the royal palace in Riyadh while bodyguards poured tiny cups of bitter coffee...
...bodyguard shot one of the attackers dead, and the driver of one car was captured; the others escaped. Throughout the night, troops combed the island's clove and coconut plantations, and gunboats patrolled the coral-reef waters lest the assassins should try to reach the mainland by dhow or dugout...
...from charges of interference in local governmental affairs. More than 800 Maldivians work at the base, thereby earning a fifth of the country's total foreign exchange, but they cannot live there. Instead, they commute to work by boat. Those from distant islands sail across the lagoon in dhow-like craft called buggalows, a trip that can take four hours when the wind is wrong and the current strong. Most come from Fedu, a sliver of an island barely 200 yards to the west, rowing back and forth in small, sailless dhonis...
After the recent coup in Zanzibar, TIME's East Africa Correspondent Bill Smith tried in vain to get to the scene by plane, finally chartered a dhow to take him the 23 miles from Tanganyika to the embattled island. On arrival, Smith had barely begun to interview a U.S. official when Zanzibar police seized his notes and placed him and several other Western journalists under detention. The charges included sending "biased" stories-although Reporter Smith had not yet cabled a word. After almost 24 hours and some browbeating, he was released and placed aboard a British vessel...
...Station outside Zanzibar Town and sent dozens of official personnel and dependents off to Tanganyika on a U.S. destroyer. But four American newsmen (including TIME'S William Smith) arrived in Zanzibar to provide a target for the government's wrath. The reporters sailed in on an Arab dhow and began asking questions. Karume, who wanted no visitors, had them placed under house arrest in the Zanzibar Hotel. When Picard intervened, Karume stormed into the hotel lounge and exploded. "Why are you interfering in our internal affairs?" he raged. "Why, why, why? Why did you evacuate your people without...