Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...menu listed such delicacies as Saliva of the Arab Rivers (consomme), Pearls of Kuwait and Casablanca (potatoes), Baby Lambs of Nejd and Kairouan, and concluded with Jewels of Jericho (fruit), and Aroma of Yemen (coffee...
...Arab summit's agenda and may be supported by the more or less conservative Arab states of Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. Nasser's effort to get Arab backing for his Yemen stand against "the British imperialists and Saudi infiltrators" may be backed by Algeria, Kuwait, and his new-found bosom friend, King Hussein of Jordan. Syria, whose Baathist rulers detest Nasser, and Lebanon, which hates quarrels, will probably stay on the sidelines...
...East to Jeddah, the closest airport to Mecca. Though the Koran forbids liquor, Sheik Alamuddin provides it on most flights. Parched Moslem passengers can often be seen downing Scotch or cognac as soon as the planes take to the air on Middle East's early-morning flights from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...
Beirut is also beautiful, with cool groves of umbrella pines and great clusters of purple bougainvillaea. It is rich, not from oil but from oil revenues of more than $3 billion a year, poured in by sheiks from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia; they flock to Beirut to play among a people who speak their language and understand their needs. Moreover, 92 banks flourish on deposits from Arabs who are distrustful of their own governments and appreciate the Swiss-like secrecy enforced by law. Recently, Intra Bank of Lebanon bought the 28-story Canada House on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
Beirut has four universities, and publishes more books and magazines than even Cairo. Next to tiny, oil-rich Kuwait, it has the highest per-capita income in the Arab world ($500 annually); yet public and social services are woefully inadequate. Every rainstorm knocks out the power and phone systems, and virtually no one pays income taxes except benighted foreign residents. The public schools are regarded as hopelessly inferior. Yet Lebanon also has the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, and parents starve themselves to send their children to private schools...