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...this display was an impressive lineup of dignitaries, including Jordan's King Hussein, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and the Crown Princes of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the major gulf states. They had come to Muscat, the capital of Oman, to mark the 15th anniversary of Sultan Qaboos bin Said's accession to power and to celebrate his transformation of Oman into a prosperous nation courted by the West for its strategic location at the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the non-Communist world...
...coup that sent his father Sultan Said bin Taimur into exile. The aging ruler had kept Oman isolated from the rest of the world. The country's few cars crawled along only six miles of roadway. Three primary schools educated a total of 909 males. The gates of Muscat were locked at night, and the use of eyeglasses was banned...
...result of Qaboos' modernization, 196,000 men and women now receive free education, and a university is under construction. Autos can use more than 2,000 miles of paved road. A building boom has transformed Muscat, set amid rough mountains rising from the sea, into a clean and tastefully designed capital...
Oman's prosperity may be threatened if its oil begins to run out in the 1990s. Another uncertainty comes from the fact that Qaboos, who is divorced, has no heirs. The leaders who gathered in Muscat last week can only hope they will be invited again for many more of the Sultan's anniversaries. --By John Moody. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Muscat
...WATERWORLD Without H2O, it would all be wasteland. With it, Nizwa is a lush oasis of date palms about 165 km from Muscat. Its recently restored 17th century fort is the largest structure from that era on the Arabian peninsula. Check out the deceptive architecture featuring false passageways, as well as the underground stream that provided a steady source of water in case of siege...