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Apparently, Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem had thought he was only offering an Arab pleasantry when he announced his intent to "liberate" oil-rich Kuwait. He was amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After...
...Hamburg for minor surgery last month, Sheik Abdullah Al-Jabir As-Sabah, 65, Justice and Education Minister of oil-rich Kuwait, received tender loving care from a 19-year-old secretary, casually married her, quickly got a telephone squawk from one of his three other wives. But by last week, the contrite ("It was beyond my control") sheik was back at his palace near Beirut, had shucked his German bride of ten days and placated his complaining spouse with gifts among them a $10,000 diamond ring. Neither action came hard. The divorce was his 27th, and the baubles were...
...Saudi Arabia to the neighboring sheikdom of Kuwait. A Connecticut-sized chunk of desert bordering on the Persian Gulf, Kuwait is so rich from oil that it literally does not know what to do with all its money. Kuwait's portly ruler, Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah, has an annual income of $200 million but modestly keeps only one wife and a single Cadillac. Saud has a yearly income of $320 million, keeps four wives, some 100 concubines, countless cars...
Preparing for Saud's arrival, Kuwait's lesser sheiks spared no expense. Cabinetmakers and furniture manufacturers were kept busy round the clock for a whole month refurbishing air-conditioned desert palaces. First among the princely spenders was Sheik Abdullah al Mubarak as Sabah, commander in chief of the 3,000-man armed forces, head of the police, Minister of Defense and Broadcasting, and Kuwait's unchallenged strongman. Mubarak already owns a Cadillac with brightware completely goldplated, but to celebrate Saud's coming he ordered another 69 Chevrolets, seven Oldsmobiles and seven more Cadillacs. Triumphal arches...
...Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from his shoulders, Abdullah said...