Word: sharjah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharjah, United Arab Emirates...
Financed with plastic-coated petrodollars marked IN OIL WE TRUST, the player seeks to control and exploit all the countries belonging to the same color group-Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, or Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. Aside from the roll of the dice, advances or reverses occur when the would-be oil potentate lands on the space marked "Telex," where a message may order him to return to the Geneva Airport-equivalent to Monopoly's "Go" position-notify him of a crippling tanker strike or tell him to skip ahead to be photographed for a TIME cover...
...members of OPEC, in order of last year's earnings are: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Al geria, Indonesia, Qatar, Ecuador and Gabon, which is an associate member. The United Arab Emirates is a federation of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Quwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah...
...more than once ... and, in fact, I had to waken one of them to give him the approach briefing." Another pilot dozed off while awaiting clearance to take off on a London to Frankfort flight. In one instance, an exhausted flight crew missed an airport altogether. It landed at Sharjah on the Persian Gulf rather than at Dubai, which is six miles away...
...only other sizable military force in the gulf-one converted seaplane tender and two destroyers of the U.S. Middle East Force-refused to intervene in the seizure. Partly mollified by the Shah's offer of $3,600,000 a year to Sharjah for oil rights on Abu Mesa, the Union of Arab Emirates has tacitly accepted Iran's conquest. Ras al Khaima, however, has so far angrily refused to join the federation, although it is expected...