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...year reign, Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah transformed his Connecticut-sized sheikdom of Kuwait from a poverty-plagued sand pile at the head of the Persian Gulf into the world's most prosperous Arab state. With a national income of $30,000 a year per native family, his 468,000 people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag...
Slender Successor. As Abdullah wished, the Council of Ministers quickly proclaimed his brother, Premier Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, as Kuwait's new Emir. Like his brother, Sabah is a kind and conservative aristocrat, and a devoutly religious nondrinker. The resemblance ends there. Abdullah was tall and portly, and had a commanding, fatherly presence. Sabah is short (5 ft. 5 in.), slender, and a good deal less commanding. "Sabah is quietly weak." said one Kuwaiti official, "while Abdullah was quietly strong...
...Died. Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah, 70, progress-minded ruler of oil-rich Kuwait; of congestive heart failure; in Kuwait (see THE WORLD...
...KUWAIT sent some $10 million to Beirut. Though prosperous, Kuwait is also jittery. Aged, gouty Emir Abdullah as-Sabah broke off medical treatment in Bombay to rush home last week and deal with a Cabinet crisis that boils down to a clash within the Emir's own numerous and irascible family. On top of that, a wrangle between Kuwaiti merchants and a British importing firm that had a monopoly on the liquor trade resulted in an unsettling solution: the Assembly imposed prohibition...
...amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure. But as an educated man, Mr. Moses should know that "a) Kuwait does not have a sultan but an emir; b) the emir does not own Cadillacs; c) the emir does not have any harem, and d) Kuwait does not have sand flies and camel dung...