Word: sultanate
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British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd faced the House of Commons with an air at once portentous and embarrassed: for the second time in a year British armed forces were on the shooting move in the Middle East. At the request of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, he said. British forces were being called upon to help put down a revolt in the desert...
...companies of Cameron Highlanders were airlifted from Kenya to Persian Gulf bases, two British frigates slipped into the Sultan's coastal waters and four R.A.F. jet fighters roared up from a Persian Gulf sandstrip to fire rockets and cannon into the mud-brick-walled rebel citadels in the mountains of Oman. Cairo's press and radio filled the air with shouts about "a British attack on Arab nationalism." Actually it was not much of a war; only the current state of Middle East nerves made it front-page news...
...Imam. Some of the headlines made it appear that the British were once again shooting up primitive desert tribesmen, defending a despotic ruler and creating a "second Suez." But in fact this was a case when the British were going to the help of a Sultan who, in the London Economist's words, "is not contending against an electorate of the future-a nationalist movement of young and educated men-but against a reactionary rival." The British showed their might almost hesitantly. They acted in Oman, fearing that if they did not, their position would be weakened along...
...Ibadhiya, a Moslem sect so ascetic that it still bars minarets around its mosques as too ornamental. The present ruling house descended from the wild peaks and established its capital at Muscat two centuries ago. Its dynasts turned from theocratic to temporal rule, and with the title of sultan instead of imam, built up a trading and slave-running empire that once extended from Zanzibar to Iraq...
...negotiate. The Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) has shifted its headquarters from Nasser's propaganda-saturated Cairo to the relatively French-friendly atmosphere of Tunis, and also showed a willingness to accept the standing mediation offer of Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's moderate Sultan Mohammed V. Quick to understand the significance of the FLN move, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau dispatched young (31) Foreign Affairs Ministry Aide Jean-Yves Goëau-Brissonnière to a trade-union congress in Tunis, ostensibly to act as an "observer," actually to sound out FLN leaders...