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...Dhabi is not one of our heaviest circulation areas, but TIME has had an impact on the Persian Gulf state of 50,000. An article we ran four years ago described efforts by University of Arizona scientists to grow vegetables in the desert. The story so intrigued Sheik Zaid bin Sultan al Nahayan, that he gave the university's Environmental Research Laboratory more than $3,000,000 to build an experimental "controlled environment greenhouse" on the tiny island of Saadiyat off the Abu Dhabi coast...
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...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...
...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...