Word: muscat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration. Rebel casualties were unknown, but probably amounted to not more than 40 or 50 killed and wounded...
...Muscat and Oman that their swords melted in the scabbards and gazelles fell down, roasted in the desert...
When Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, appealed to Britain for help in subduing the rebellious and elusive Imam of Oman, no one thought that the affair would require much more than a few passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...
...first half, $38 million more than an early estimate. Cities Service President W. Alton Jones announced record first-half profits of $36,315,490, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Dhofar-Cities Service Petroleum Corp., announced a second oil strike in the district of Dhofar in the sultanate of Muscat and Oman.* The two wells, on a 32,000-sq.-mi. concession held by Dhofar-Cities Service in partnership with Richfield Oil Corp., may mark the beginning of a major new Middle Eastern field...
Mixed Lot. The people of Zanzibar and the nearby island of Pemba are a mixed lot. At the bottom are the 200,000 black Africans, "God's Poor." Then come the 45,000 better educated and land-rich Arabs, descendants of Arab conquerors who hailed originally from Muscat and Oman. The tiny European colony at last count numbered 296, mostly British officials. Most everybody on the island speaks Kiswahili and practices Mohammedanism (including the blacks). Overseeing everything is an aged (77) and beloved Sultan, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.B.E. (whom God Preserve...