The Omani sultan in 1965 calls home…

The Omani sultan in 1965 calls home from England his twenty-five-year-old son, Qabus ibn Sa'id, who had received his education at Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, and at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, in Berkshire.

Apparently believing that his British-educated son would challenge his archconservative policies, the sultan immediately places Qabus under strict house arrest, while maintaining his subjects in a state of medieval backwardness despite the country's growing oil revenues.

The Ohotari tribesmen, mountain jibalis, begin to rebel openly against Sa'id's oppressive practices in the same year, forming the Dhofar Liberation Front.

Around the same time, the British define Oman's southern boundary with neighboring Aden as an “administrative line.”