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Although Moslem women in such countries as Tunisia and Lebanon are clamoring for equality, Scholar-Sheik Abu Zahara defended the double-standard system of polygamy on the ground that "it has put a limit to the chaotic side of social life." He also upheld the essential humanity of such traditional Arab punishments as cutting off the hands of thieves and flogging adulterers. The pain is acute and the experience humiliating, the Sheik admitted, but it does not last as long as the Western way of punishment, imprisonment...
...share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes and frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt, Syria and Iraq, Bedas became adept at handling skittish clients. Once he even hauled a suitcase of stocks from his vault to the mountain mansion of a suspicious sheik to assure him that his hoard was really intact and safe with Intra...
...their part, the majors (the biggest, led by Standard Oil of New Jersey and Royal Dutch/Shell, are nicknamed "the Seven Sisters") fear that, waving the juicy E.R.A.P. deal as precedent, every sheik in the Middle East will be howling for similar agreements. Actually, France may well decide that it was a poor idea after all. Under the contract, E.R.A.P.'s exploratory territory shrinks from 85,000 to 12,000 sq. mi. after the first year, and still more after that; search rights may be stopped altogether after six years. Given past experience, the prospects for finding oil are uncertain...
...wing, the lovebirds catch delightful glimpses of such old film favorites as Wilfred Hyde-White, Grégoire Asian, John Le Mesurier, and Terry-Thomas cast as an Eton-educated sheik whose gap-toothed grin would probably pass a camel. T-T has a number of soppingly silly old-boy lines to deliver, but the silliest is allotted to Villain Lorn. "I'm having a party tomorrow night," tie remarks amiably to a wealthy Muslim. "Do come. And bring your wives...
Foreign contractors and advisers proposed roads, schools, power plants, harbors and sewage systems. Shakhbout always refused. In one rare moment of weakness, he agreed to build a modern hospital, then later refused to equip it. Merchants who called on the sheik to ask payment of long-standing debts were thrown out of the palace. When Shakhbout's 600-man police force protested about overdue pay, he fired half the force...