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...sheiks. "People do not like the Kuwaitis," a Cairene named Mohammed Fawzy said last week. "The Kuwaitis are always in the nightclub and casino. All they think about is money. They think they can buy anything." The mass of Arabs recoil from the injustice of oil wealth that buys Scotch and an opulent life for the sheiks' Cairo holidays during Ramadan and leaves so many of their brothers in poverty and squalor. A Moroccan journalist remarks, "I don't care if he is a fascist. At least he doesn't gamble and chase women." Many Arabs admire Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam and the Arabs: The Devil in the Hero | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...Tanqueray, the Scotch was Johnny Walker Black Label, and the decor was centuries old, as about 100 Harvard luminaries gathered in Houghton Library last night to celebrate the publication of Partners in Liberty...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Kohl Lauded at Houghton Bash | 12/15/1990 | See Source »

...soothed the sulking Democrats of Capitol Hill. They still smarted over the fact that he had interrupted their party's long grip on the presidency. He won Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson to his side as often as not. One evening after plying L.B.J. with Scotch, Ike pointed to his own chair in the Oval Office and said, "Senator, someday you should be in that chair." Johnson roared back to his office in the Capitol wearing that tribute like a battle ribbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Why We Still Like Ike | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...guess we'll just have to feed Scotch more," Fair said of the team's mascot...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: Elis Slip Past W. Booters, 1-0 In Seniors' Final Ohiri Game | 10/24/1990 | See Source »

...sybarite who virtually abandoned his desert kingdom for a career of overseas carousing. He drank Scotch freely, ordered caviar by the pound, attended the raunchy shows in the nightclubs of Beirut so frequently that he knew all the leading belly dancers by name, engaged in myriad liaisons with women (he is said to have paid the wife of a Lebanese businessman $100,000 a year to make herself available) and, if old stories are to be believed, gambled away $1 million in the casinos of Monte Carlo during a single weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: An Exquisite Balancing Act | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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