Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets and other durable goods that sales have slumped for its 17,000 shopkeepers. Making this situation worse, a flood of job-seeking immigrants from other, poorer Arab lands has raised Kuwait's population by 46% since 1961. Last week, tightening its policy of Kuwait for the Kuwaitis, the government imposed stiff new jail sentences and fines for immigration violations and amended dismissal provisions of the civil service code to pave the way for an anticipated purge of non-Kuwaiti government employees...
...month ago the oil-rich sheikdom of Kuwait banned all liquor within its borders, and since then many of its thirsty citizens have been drinking everything in sight from perfume and eau de cologne to rubbing alcohol and Sterno - with predictably disastrous results. By last week, an estimated 150 Kuwaiti had died from alcohol poisoning, several hundred more had been blinded, and Kuwait's hospitals were filled to overflowing. Bathtub gin is flourishing, and bootlegging the real thing has become Kuwait's fastest growing business. A fifth of Dewar's White Label Scotch now commands a sheik...
...import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record in the tiny Moslem land, the bill passed easily, despite its manifest unpopularity and whatever the legislators' private lapses from the temperance of Mohammed's grace might...
...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...
Until party elections are held some time next year, Iraq will apparently be run by the Baath Central Committee (which includes a Jordanian, a Lebanese and a Kuwaiti as well as Iraqi and Syrian generals) and by Michel Aflak, the Secretary-General and real power in the party. It was the first time that Aflak, a withdrawn, seemingly gentle intellectual who has sanctioned the executions of hundreds of political opponents, emerged from his shadowy position behind the scenes...