Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filling In the Sea. To get the land it needs for its growing industries and shipping facilities, Rotterdam has relentlessly expanded into the North Sea, will fill in and raise 12,000 acres of lowland to create the Europoort. It needs all the room it can get. Gulf is building a new refinery in the Europoort, Tidewater Oil is moving in, and Britain's big Imperial Chemical Industries has already started a petrochemical complex. The port is building a new grain harbor whose 420-meter jetty will be the world's biggest. Last week, contracts were signed...
Three Plagues. The Kurdish homeland begins above Biblical Mount Ararat and extends south in a long, mountainous loop to the Persian Gulf (see map). Because of the accidents of history and their own inability to unite, the estimated 6,000,000 Kurds are today divided among five different nations: the Soviet Union...
...became the 111th member of the United Nations-but did not enter, as so many others do, as an underprivileged nation. With $480 million pouring into their coffers each year from Kuwait's gushing oil wells, the 322,000 residents of the Connecticut-sized country on the Persian Gulf have a per capita income of $2,200, one of the world's highest. Kuwait collects almost no taxes, spends ten times more per capita than Britain on such welfare state services as medical care and education for its citizens. It has been transformed by oil from a barren...
...Arab businessmen. He tripled his total staff to 500, is converting his business from handwritten, single-entry ledgers to computers, has trained a corps of crack salesmen and sent his technicians off to Beirut, England and the U.S. for training. Handling dealerships for such companies as Chrysler, Kaiser Jeep, Gulf Oil, Philco, Whirlpool and National Cash Register, Bader has ridden on Kuwait's boom. Last year his sales included 1,000 cars, 4,000 air conditioners (the Kuwait temperature goes up to 125°), three jet planes, and $600,000 worth of N.C.R. equipment. He is building two apartment...
...pressed Haiti to guarantee the safety of opposition Haitians. Under the OAS Banner. The U.S. plans to "proceed in company with the OAS," said President Kennedy last week, and would consider sanctions on Haiti only if present negotiations failed. A task force, with U.S. Marines aboard, maneuvered in the Gulf of Gonaïves within sight of Haiti's dun-colored mountains. Helicopters from the carrier Boxer could put them ashore in minutes. Yet the U.S. is anxious to avoid any unilateral intervention that would inevitably revive memories of the 1915-34 U.S. Marine occupation of Haiti. If intervention...