Word: jabir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane to pick up the oryxes, which had been shipped to New Jersey. The four consisted of two males and two females, Edith from Aden, and Caroline, contributed by the London Zoo. Another female, still unnamed, will arrive at the end of summer, a gift of Sheik Abdulla Al-Jabir As-Sabah of Kuwait...
...pressure-cooked, petrolific Kuwait, where wives are wheeled and dealed like Cadillacs, Sheik Abdullah Al-Jabir As-Sabah, Minister of Justice and Education, finally met a woman who was his match. Six months ago. the 65-year-old sheik got his 27th divorce, this one from pretty ex-Secretary Heidi Dichter, 19. Last week, after yielding to ardent pleas from the changeable sheik, Heidi was back in the marital fold-but on terms. To lure Heidi home again, the sheik promised to pay her family back in Germany a stipend of $150 a month. And if he ever decides...
...Hamburg for minor surgery last month, Sheik Abdullah Al-Jabir As-Sabah, 65, Justice and Education Minister of oil-rich Kuwait, received tender loving care from a 19-year-old secretary, casually married her, quickly got a telephone squawk from one of his three other wives. But by last week, the contrite ("It was beyond my control") sheik was back at his palace near Beirut, had shucked his German bride of ten days and placated his complaining spouse with gifts among them a $10,000 diamond ring. Neither action came hard. The divorce was his 27th, and the baubles were...