Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torn Yemen and coup-prone Syria, Russian aid has been largely dissipated in a sea of domestic troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make it easy to turn down aid, have all refused to accept the merest Red cent...
...KUWAIT sent some $10 million to Beirut. Though prosperous, Kuwait is also jittery. Aged, gouty Emir Abdullah as-Sabah broke off medical treatment in Bombay to rush home last week and deal with a Cabinet crisis that boils down to a clash within the Emir's own numerous and irascible family. On top of that, a wrangle between Kuwaiti merchants and a British importing firm that had a monopoly on the liquor trade resulted in an unsettling solution: the Assembly imposed prohibition...
...fruits of capitalist enterprise. For those who cannot make the trip to Herald Square, Macy's has a personal shopping service. Among millions of routine assignments, it has dispatched six bottles of Coppertone to a sunburned Englishman in Libya and enough nylon material for the wife of a Kuwait sheik to make a tablecloth to accommodate 84 diners...
...club, as most London nightspots are because of drinking-hours regulations, made membership available to nearly anyone with an air of urbanity and $30 as initiation fee, payable at the door. Its 10,000 members now include the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Winston Churchill, the Sheik of Kuwait and Cary Grant. The place exudes an atmosphere of luxury, with its heavy carpets, dark brocades and carved woodwork...
...best-known image of desert oil is that of such places as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; the Middle East does, in fact, account for a quarter of the world's petroleum output. But as the sheiks grab bigger and bigger slices of oil revenues, producers have been busy developing alternative resources closer to the oil-hungry European market. The big gest of these now lie in the Algerian and Libyan Sahara, where drilling rigs, tank farms and smoke-plumed refiner ies give a modern industrial look to the ancient face of the desert...