Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kuwait, a hot and dusty Arab sheikdom, last week became the 111th member of the United Nations-but did not enter, as so many others do, as an underprivileged nation. With $480 million pouring into their coffers each year from Kuwait's gushing oil wells, the 322,000 residents of the Connecticut-sized country on the Persian Gulf have a per capita income of $2,200, one of the world's highest. Kuwait collects almost no taxes, spends ten times more per capita than Britain on such welfare state services as medical care and education for its citizens...
...times a day for the past 30 years, thin, threadbare Sheik Shakhbut bin Sultan faced west, bowed low, and prayed for an oil strike. His realm of Abu Dhabi was desperately in need of some good luck. Up and down the Persian Gulf, the states of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran were rolling in oil wealth. But year after year, Abu Dhabi's 25,000 sq. mi. of sand, date palms and barren offshore islands just got hotter, more humid and windswept than before...
...helped finance it." Arab Bank loans created jobs for more than 100,000 workers, and in Jordan the bank's loans for new cement, textile, and food-processing plants have given the country a growth rate in the Middle East second only to oil-rich Kuwait. Aside from commercial loans, Shoman gave millions of his own and the bank's money to Arab charities, has sent hundreds of Arab students to Western universities. Sentimentally, unschooled Shoman has built a $600,000 teachers training college in his native village, Beit Hanina...
Freed Slaves. Many observers suspect that this new ship of state may go swiftly on the rocks, but few of them are in the Arab world. Twelve members of oil-rich Kuwait's 50-man legislature formally requested unity with the U.A.R. Even Nasser's traditional enemies, the monarchies of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, made efforts at reconciliation. Jordan's King Hussein discreetly let 56 Nasserite and Baathist political prisoners out of jail and sent off friendly feelers to Nasser. In Saudi Arabia, alarmed by a pro-Nasser demonstration that cost 19 lives, Premier Prince Feisal tried...
Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella cabled that this was "the most wonderful day of my life!" and Yemen's strongman. Abdullah Sallal. hailed the "outstanding historic event." Cheering crowds milled through Aden and Kuwait and Baghdad...