Word: sheikdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kuwait, a hot and dusty Arab sheikdom, last week became the 111th member of the United Nations-but did not enter, as so many others do, as an underprivileged nation. With $480 million pouring into their coffers each year from Kuwait's gushing oil wells, the 322,000 residents of the Connecticut-sized country on the Persian Gulf have a per capita income of $2,200, one of the world's highest. Kuwait collects almost no taxes, spends ten times more per capita than Britain on such welfare state services as medical care and education for its citizens...
Potent Precautions. More likely, Nasser's newest venture into troubled waters involves Kuwait. On Christmas Eve Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, keenly interested onlooker in India's invasion of Goa, said that he would follow suit by "liberating" the oil-drenched sheikdom "in the coming days." In the past, Nasser has had as little use for Kassem as for Arabia's harem kings, but recently there have been rumors of a reconciliation...
...that their nomadic ancestors once roamed the ground in question. Backward Yemen claims all of the Aden Protectorate, whose border is disputed in turn by Saudi Arabia, which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole leader" of Iraq, announced during the course of a three-hour tirade that he was bent upon "liberating" Ku wait and returning...
...occasion was the state visit of King Saud of 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...
...concessions are being granted all over the Middle East. Examples: ¶ In Yemen the American Overseas Investment Corp. was exploring a 10,000-sq.-mi. concession in the northwestern coastal plain. It had beaten out the Japanese and the Italians for Yemen rights. ¶ In the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Compagnie Franchise des Petroles brought in a well that tested out at 2,400 bbl. daily...