Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along the way, Elkin displays his unique gift for surreal parody. In a sultan's harem, the chief eunuch gives a sex lecture in the tone of a call-in therapist: "You could fault tonight, you could die. In any event, I trust a review can do no harm, and I enjoy our chalk talks." A crusading George speaks with Joycean extravagance: " 'We were friends,' he says again of the man he has just mutilated. . .'He was wily. I frisked his shift and groped his robes. I did his duds like a dowser. . .And it came...
Another participant in the Bright Star exercise of last year, the Sultanate of Oman, said it would take part once again and on a larger scale than last year, but with a condition: no publicity. Then the story leaked in the Washington Post that an elaborate exercise would take place in Oman this month. The Omanis were furious, and the Pentagon was mortified, fearing that the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, would pull...
...runways there will soon be able to handle the South Yemeni air force's MiG-21s, which Omani officials say are piloted by Cubans, East Germans and North Koreans. Oman's own armed forces include officers from Britain and Baluchi tribesmen from Pakistan on contract to the Sultan...
...Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman is the most forthright, and therefore often the loneliest, of America's friends on the Arabian peninsula. He is also the most optimistic, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott found during an interview with the 41-year-old monarch...
...than many of his fellow Arabs and his allies in the Reagan Administration. "Fundamentalism in and of itself is not a political threat," he says. "It becomes a threat if it is used as a cover by others- Communists or whomever-to get into people's minds." The Sultan of Oman is determined to defend his country against that possibility...