Word: feudalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Builders and small shopkeepers are the only significant urban groups that have not been nationalized. In Damascus and Aleppo, dozens of half-completed grey buildings stand forlornly in their wooden scaffolds, abandoned by builders who stopped construction because unrealistic rent controls would deny them profit. Though 90% of all "feudalist" land has been confiscated, the government so far has allocated only 20% to farmers...
Shark Food. Consequently, many Bahreinis listen approvingly to broadcasts from Cairo and Baghdad denouncing Sheik Isa as a feudalist and a British stooge. Their chief source of resentment is the Sheik's 800-man British-officered police force. When oil workers went on strike last March, the Sheik's tough cops cracked down hard, killing twelve and wounding 50, repressed Nasser-inspired student riots last month with equal severity. Opponents of Sheik Isa often end up in a mystery-shrouded prison on desolate Jidah Island. Over Baghdad radio last week, a political prisoner who had recently escaped from...