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...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...
Cried Iraqi's Education Minister Jabir Ummar at Nasser's "Revolution Day" rally: "Brothers, having wiped disgrace from its face and cleansed its defilement by agents with pieces of their bodies in Baghdad's streets, we come to you with our new Arab Iraqi revolution." The Baghdad radio called on Jordanians to "rise up and kill Hussein." And the reply of Hussein's Amman radio was to ask Iraqis: "Why have you not avenged the innocent blood shed in Baghdad? Would you leave the honor of revenge for others? What is the use of living...
Died. Sir Ahmed Ibn Al Jabir Al Subah, 64, oil-rich ruler of the Arab sheikdom of Kuwait, near the head of the Persian Gulf; of a heart attack; in his capital, Al Kuwait...
Between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, by the Persian Gulf, lies the "neutral zone"-a condominium of Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Kuwait's Sheik Sir Ahmad al Jabir-al-Subah. There, last week, business looked cracking good...