Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orbit extends far beyond Britain. He was one of the first to see the potential in filmed TV programs-as opposed to live ones-shot relatively cheaply in Britain and syndicated around the world. His first production, the 1954 series Robin Hood, is still being rerun in Poland, Kuwait, New Zealand and many other countries. Over the years, he has sold more than 100,000 hours of programming to 104 countries-"everything but the weather forecast," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield. Among his recent exports to the U.S. are the Tom Jones Show, Hamlet starring Richard Chamberlain...
...plush appointments of Seoul's Chosun Hotel, emerging only for ceremonial functions or to play golf and tennis. One day when it rained, he ordered a Ping Pong table sent up to his room. He visited no American soldiers, Korean hospitals, schools, marketplaces or housing projects. In Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, the routine was essentially the same. In Kenya, Agnew visited the Treetops wild-game preserve, conferred briefly with President Jomo Kenyatta, later lunched with him and his ministers, and golfed...
...staff have shown little more than an icy tolerance for either the traveling press contingent or native journalists. During an airborne press conference, the Vice President accused the American press of a Communist bias. As a result, foreign press coverage has frequently been less than flattering. The Kuwait Times, in an editorial titled "An Odd Experience with American Courtesy," complained that Agnew was making only a "palace visit," and that "to the masses, and ironically enough, for the local pressmen too, the visit might as well have taken place in some distant corner of the earth." Similarly, the Daily Nation...
Three years have lapsed since drillers struck oil on Alaska's North Slope, touching off a black-gold rush that promised to make the relatively poor state the "Kuwait of the North." What has happened to the promise? To find out, TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney spent ten days trekking across Alaska. Her report...
...KUWAIT. "I don't think Kuwait has had a high-level American visitor for some time; they had been asking for one." SAUDI ARABIA. "Of course my visit there comes as a result of the recent visit of King Faisal to Washington. I happened to be sitting next to Faisal at a luncheon at the White House, and he evidenced an interest in having me visit his country if I found it convenient...