Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month at the Hilton was three times what she could earn in government work. Besides, there were unexpected fringe benefits: one day a guest who made a point of always sitting at one of Afaf's tables said: "Would you like to come to Kuwait and work?" She did not get the proposal at first until he made it clear-"as a wife." Dr. Yehia Omar Khalid introduced himself, the pair took the next i train to Alexandria to meet Afaf's parents, and last week they were married...
...payoff has been slight: a scant 480,000 tons of oil last year (compared to Kuwait's 70 million tons). But the promise is enough to give some substance to Charles de Gaulle's dreams of the grandeur of France. For if the Sahara's already proven oil reserves-conservatively estimated at 700 million tons-can be successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will...
...poured capital into the Sahara, at the current rate of more than $200 million a year, foreign oilmen at first looked on with skepticism. They questioned French estimates of reserves; they observed that the Sahara's sweet crude (more than 40 degree gravity) yields far more gasoline than Kuwait crude-but less than half as much heavy fuel oil. France most needs heavy fuel oil for its industry, said Petroleum Week, warning of the danger that "France would soon have gasoline running out its ears...
...Provides professors and graduate students for understaffed schools in other Arab countries. Some 300 al-Azhar scholars are teaching in Kuwait alone...
...more optimism than perhaps the circumstances warranted, still talked of Kassem's capacity to resist, if need be, the Communist help he depended upon to crush the Mosul revolt. (So long as Baghdad keeps independent of Cairo, the British think they can save their valuable oil principality of Kuwait from falling to Nasser.) Washington's reaction was to take no sides in what it called an Arab "family quarrel." Nasser's disenchantment with the Communists may now have gone a little farther than Kassem's, but neither was yet showing any signs of the wish...