Word: zaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ZAID ALRIFAI...
...ZAID ALRIFAI...
...their smallness by king-size feuds over their indefinite boundaries. There has been no end of dagger duels between the inhabitants of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but last week delegations from both met in a cluster of mud huts on their mutual borders. After countless cups of tea, Sheik Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi and Sheik Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum of Dubai signed a pact of federation that will give their joint population of 150,000 a common citizenship, flag, defense force and foreign policy...
...Dhabi was going through a similar-though less surprising-upheaval. Sheik Shakhbout bin Sultan, 61, who had been in power longer (since 1928) than any other Middle East ruler, was suddenly shipped off to nearby Bahrain Island one day last week, and his youngest brother, 46-year-old Sheik Zaid bin Sultan, became the sheikdom's new headman...
...years, Zaid tried to persuade his older brother to spread the oil wealth around the country. Running out of patience, Zaid finally called a secret family council, and all agreed that Shakhbout had to go. The British obligingly brought in native troops from neighboring sheikdoms, carried the reluctant Shakhbout bodily out of the palace, and flew him to Bahrain in a waiting R.A.F. plane. "Our priorities are many," Zaid said at week's end. "We need a deep-water port, an international airport, hospitals, schools and town planning, plus some parks for the people. From now on, the people...