Word: sheikdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom of Kuwait, Arab boys end a strenuous schoolyard military drill by hauling down an Israeli flag from a makeshift pole, trampling it exultantly. At a school for royalty in Saudi Arabia, King Saud's sons dress up as modern Egyptians, act out a playlet called Heroes of Port Said by fiercely vanquishing the "cowardly" British and Israelis, and-stretching a point-Americans. Behind these and similar exercises in Arab nationalism are hundreds of Egyptian schoolteachers, exported to education-hungry Mid-East nations by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, paid partly by local governments, partly...
...cost of $3,500,000, it was the most advanced mobile oil-drilling platform ever built, and a device that its owners, British Petroleum Co. and Compagnie Franchise de Petroles, hope will open up a huge new oilfield off the shores of Arabia's Abu Dhabi sheikdom. But while the barge's owners are foreign, the barge itself is thoroughly American, a product of the De Long Corp., one of the nation's fastest-growing and most inventive engineering and construction firms...
...India, rests on protective arrangements made long ago to safeguard minor sovereigns and sheiks around the gulf from wild tribal attacks out of the hinterland. The discovery of oil-or the hope of it-made this game of sand-dune diplomacy suddenly twice as important. What if the sheikdom of Kuwait, now the world's richest known oilfield, should sever its connections with Britain and the sterling area? Or if the same idea should occur to oil-rich Qatar and Bahrein, or those shadowy Trucial* Oman sheikdoms, whose rulers, like the Sultan of Muscat and Oman himself, reign over...
Today six hospitals provide free medical service to all of the sheikdom's 140,000 citizens, and malaria, once the scourge of Bahrein, is gone. Water from artesian wells flows into many Bahrein homes, and a dial telephone system links the archipelago's principal towns. And, at Belgrave's insistence, the accumulated reserve funds have been carefully invested abroad so that even when Bahrein's oil finally dries up−her proven reserves are only 200 million barrels v. Saudi Arabia's 35 billion barrels−Bahreinis should still enjoy a fair degree of prosperity...
...British there were other embarrassments. Cyprus, its last major Middle East bastion since the British were forced out of Egypt and Suez, is still restlessly demanding self-determination. And as Lloyd headed east to Pakistan, his plane stopped at Bahrein Island, a rich oil sheikdom under British protection, off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Foreign Minister Lloyd's cavalcade was met with a shower of stones from a rioting mob shouting, "Down with Britain...