Word: salala
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...population was more than 90% illiterate. Malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, trachoma and leprosy were endemic, but there was only one hospital, staffed by American missionaries. Terrified of assassination, the Sultan abandoned his capital of Muscat and barricaded himself farther down the coast in a crumbling palace in the town of Salala. There he stacked machine guns in every room and ventured outside only for furtive walks along a superb white beach. Village girls were brought to the palace and, recalls a visitor, "there was usually a little love in the afternoon with one or another favorite." One room was stocked with...
Qabus might still be locked in the palace had not Omani rebels, trained in neighboring Southern Yemen by guerrilla warfare experts from Peking, begun fostering unrest. Eventually, operating out of bases in the Dhofar Mountains, the rebels mortared Salala...
...fields at Fahud to finance it. Qabus has approved contracts for 242 more miles of paved road, begun deepening Muscat harbor and building docks to handle large ships. An 18-room hotel is going up to house visiting businessmen in Muscat. Radio stations have been opened in Muscat and Salala. A weekly newspaper will soon be published, but it will be printed in Beirut for the time being because there has never been a printing press in Oman...
...Sultan provided a higher education was his son Qabus, whom he sent to Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy. Many Britons hoped that the Sultan would retire in favor of his son, but Said showed no such inclination. Once back home Qabus found himself under virtual palace arrest at Salala; he was forbidden to marry or even to receive guests without his father's permission...
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