Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grand total of eight: Andorra, Bhutan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Muscat-Oman, Switzerland and the Vatican City...
Abdullah Tariki is in and out of Cairo frequently, helping organize arms shipments to Saudi Arabian dissidents by air and across the long, empty border with Kuwait. Nasser has won over Saudi Ara bia's Ambassador to West Germany, who resigned a fortnight ago in protest at his country's failure to institute reforms. At least six other Saudi ambassadors are sympathetic to Nasser's cause...
Egyptian TV, the liveliest in the Middle East, manages to keep three channels busy 20 hours a day, while kinescopes subtly loaded with Nasser propaganda are shipped out to Algeria, Kuwait and Lebanon. Nasser has collected the best entertainers in the Arab world, and uses them superbly. When Um Kalsoum sings We Revolutionists, the Bedouins in the desert are deeply stirred. One of the most popular songs among Arab kids is How We Build the High Dam at Aswan. Every transistor radio in the Middle East is a Nasser agent. When Yemen revolted against the Imam, Nasser sent them arms...
...Baghdad, new President Aref and his colleagues were too busy learning how to run a country to pay much attention. The slain Kassem, now dubbed "the mad tyrant," had quarreled with all his neighbors. Aref was restoring trade relations with Egypt, imports from Lebanon and exports to little Kuwait, the oil-rich principality Kassem once tried to take over. Tidying up another national problem, Aref sent a helicopter north to pick up two delegates of the Kurdish rebels in the hope that he might negotiate an end to the bloody civil war that has tied up half...
...primarily a construction company. Much of the Mideast's oil flows through CAT-laid pipelines. From Kuwait to Algeria, CAT crews today are literally rebuilding the Arab world, dotting it with new schools and hotels, airfields and roads...