Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...petroleum, the Japanese, besides drilling in Sumatra, are partners in a venture with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, this year will receive 68 million bbls. from the tri-nation Arabian Oil Co., which is operating in offshore Kuwait...
...dying last November, Kuwait's Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah scrawled a final command on a writing pad: "Carry on in the most enlightened way." And indeed, his brother and successor, Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, has been behaving most luminously. First he ordered a $140 bonus for all government employees in the rich little oil kingdom-a token that set the royal treasury back by $13 million. Then he decided his own pay was a bit much, had the National Assembly cut his salary from $28 million to $22.4 million per annum, with the difference...
...small stuff to the aircraft industry, but the three new jets would presumably be only a starter; taken for granted was the fact that, along with, options on more planes for Middle East Airlines, the winning bidder would also sell jets to such smaller carriers as United Arab and Kuwait Airways. Besides, 20-year-old Middle East Airlines itself has become increasingly competitive, now flies from Beirut to Bombay, Zurich and Copenhagen, plans to go soon to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro to serve a million Lebanese emigres in Latin America...
...take Marxism as an absolute and comprehensive ideology conflicts with the Arab revolution, which is basically nationalist." Syria would remain socialist, if somewhat less stridently. Abroad this would mean happier relations with its moderating socialist as well as non-socialist Arab neighbors (last week Damascus received an envoy from Kuwait to renew negotiations for a $56 million Kuwaiti loan), and at home a better break for what remains of Syria's long-beleaguered middle class...
Though nominally a socialist, Mohieddin is above all a pragmatist. His tough policies for the nation (which he calls "Egypt," rather than the grandiose "United Arab Republic") have created such a favorable impression abroad that the U.S. has resumed its food shipments, and France, Kuwait, and the Chase Manhattan Bank have kicked in $75 million in emergency credit as a vote of confidence in Egypt's new direction...