Word: sultanate
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...King Hussein, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and the Crown Princes of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the major gulf states. They had come to Muscat, the capital of Oman, to mark the 15th anniversary of Sultan Qaboos bin Said's accession to power and to celebrate his transformation of Oman into a prosperous nation courted by the West for its strategic location at the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the non-Communist world's oil flows...
Because Oman is sensitive about being seen as a U.S. client state, no U.S. personnel are stationed in the country. The 1980 agreement also stipulates that the bases may not be used without the Sultan's express consent. Nevertheless, Oman occasionally feels the need to assert its independence. Last September it announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
...Sultan, former assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, resigned on Sept. 3 amid allegations of plagiarism...
Sitting beside the sultan's palace in Yogyakarta, Richard Lloyd Parry decided to leave Indonesia. He would return to London, where there was a woman he loved waiting for him, "a face and the smell of clean skin"; he would put on hold his life as a reporter covering Asia for the Independent. But in Jakarta, where he waited for his plane to Europe, Lloyd Parry stalled. Maybe it was just cold feet; maybe it was a foreign correspondent's instinct for impending mayhem. He canceled his flight and headed into the city, just in time to catch a student...
...Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), pledged a $2.5 million donation to HDS to create a faculty position for Islamic studies...