Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Playboy Prince. Abdul Rahman was the seventh son of his father's sixth wife and, with his 44 brothers and sisters, lived the plush life befitting the offspring of the Sultan of Kedah. His Siamese mother demanded that he be carried to school on the shoulders of a retainer, and though he was an indifferent student, his royal birth won him a scholarship to Cambridge, where he began to read law. But the Tunku skipped most of his lectures, seldom missed a tea or dinner-dance, distinguished himself mainly by picking up 28 traffic violations in his silver Riley...
...Just Too Much." Discontent with the Sultan of Brunei's corrupt, inefficient and autocratic regime had long been festering in the tiny, Delaware-sized territory. Last year the Sultan's government spent only $50,000 on drugs and medicine for its people, while laying out $47,000 for electrical illumination on the Sultan's birth day; action on requests to the government usually took from six months to three years. The dominant but powerless People's Party was also dead-set against Malaysia; the party's erratic, goateed, onetime veterinarian leader, Sheik A. M. Azahari...
...early as spring 1776, France was secretly aiding the infant U.S. against Britain with money and munitions. Early in 1778, the Sultan of Morocco impetuously decided to recognize the U.S. Government and, because of communications difficulty, tried to do so through a French emissary. France slipped in ahead, recognizing the U.S. on Feb. 6, 1778 ... Feb. 20 for Morocco, which, because of prior intent, still likes to think it holds first place...
...talks between Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. and the Brunei government designed to give Brunei a larger slice of revenue from private oil production (1962 daily output: 85,000 bbl.). Levy merely observed; by the time the delicate negotiations began, he had already given his client. His Highness Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin. "disinterested advice" about what he considered a fair price for both parties...
Roaming out of his small Manhattan office to executive suites in London and Brussels or to the oilfields of Asia and the Middle East, Levy has become a friend of sultans, shahs, sheiks and top oil executives, bringing a broad perspective to an often parochial industry. Of the intricate area in which he operates, Levy says: "I write what I think is fair to both sides in a negotiation. And I only give advice on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.'' Of ten people with big oil problems, like the Sultan of Brunei, take...