Word: sultanic
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...sultan is my lord and master, I wish he would make his rounds faster, I yearn for him, I burn for him, But I have to wait my turn for him, O-o-o-h these harem nights...
When the outcome was announced outside Zanzibar's radio station, Afro-Shirazis broke into tears. But the situation was pleasing enough to Zanzibar's Arab Sultan, Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla, 31, a speedboat-loving playboy who came to the throne after his father's death three weeks ago. During the election campaign, the Afro-Shirazis hinted that if the African party won, his reign might be short. The worried Seyyid Jamshid was said to be ready to abdicate and earn a living running a motorboat service for tourists. With his allies of the Arab Nationalist Party still...
...Sulking Sultan. When a breakthrough seemed near, Abdul Rahman flew to London, sat in his hotel suite waiting for the signing ceremony. When a last obstacle appeared, Sandys persuaded Lee to iron it out privately with the Tunku. The final agreement compromised on financial issues. Singapore will loan money to the Borneo territories rather than give it outright, and a federation common market will gradually replace Singapore's freeport status...
Brunei's withdrawal only slightly jeopardizes this arrangement. Brunei's rich, reactionary Sultan is mainly sulking over Abdul Rahman's apathy toward his ambition to play a big ceremonial role in the new Malaysia. But both the Sultan and the Tunku privately admit their readiness to renew negotiations. Optimistically, the Tunku announced: "This family has been nicely settled. There is going to be a happy Malaysia...
...Brookes of Sarawak might have stepped from the pages of a Conrad novel. The first and last English family to occupy an Oriental throne, they fought pirates and hostile sultans, pacified headhunters and brought the white man's law to their cruel, vibrantly beautiful land in northwest Borneo. The Brooke rajahs ruled their Kentucky-size kingdom with the stern dignity of a Victorian paterfamilias, but with humanity and imagination as well; in the annals of colonialism, few dynasties have been so selflessly devoted to their subject's welfare. The first Brooke rajah was James, a wealthy, high-minded...