Word: sultans
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...three provinces were once an independent state, called the Kingdom of Pattani and ruled by a Malay Sultan. Starting in 1787, an expanding Siam demanded tribute from the sultan, but in 1808, the people revolted. The Thai army crushed the revolt and the Thai king divided the kingdom into provinces and appointed Thais as governors. In 1909, the British signed a treaty with the Siamese recognizing Thai sovereignty over the area. Thus, saved from the fate of British colonialism, the Malays in Pattani were handed over to a more enduring form of colonialism-Siamese expansionism. Since then, the area...
...Sent to England at 16, he attended Sandhurst and spent six months as a lieutenant with the British army on the Rhine. When Qabus returned home, he spent four years under virtual house arrest. He sometimes went a full year without seeing his father, yet had to obtain the Sultan's permission even to leave the palace...
Double Sessions. As the 14th Sultan in the Al Bu Said dynasty, Qabus is dedicated to a crash program in modernization, using $98 million in annual oil revenues from fields at Fahud to finance it. Qabus has approved contracts for 242 more miles of paved road, begun deepening Muscat harbor and building docks to handle large ships. An 18-room hotel is going up to house visiting businessmen in Muscat. Radio stations have been opened in Muscat and Salala. A weekly newspaper will soon be published, but it will be printed in Beirut for the time being because there...
...nation's three schools are now on double sessions and new ones have been opened in mosques and private homes. Some 20,000 pupils are enrolled v. 700 under the old Sultan and 21 dispensaries are being established. Qabus intends to apply for membership in both the Arab League and the U.N. He also hopes to blunt the rebel movement by means of his improvements and by offering amnesty to the estimated 700 guerrillas. He has called his uncle, Tariq ben Taimur, home from voluntary exile to become Prime Minister...
Qabus, who occasionally answers the telephone himself at the palace (Muscat 220), is a curious blend of modernity and tradition. A bachelor, he disapproves of drinking and of modern dancing in public. He prefers robes and turbans to Western dress. Since becoming Sultan he has worn his uniform as commander of the 6,000-man Omani army only once -for a parade in December marking his 30th birthday...