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From the pages of Gulf News dated August 23 to 29, 1979

From the pages of Gulf News dated August 23 to 29, 1979

  • Compiled by Abdul Rahim Kareem, head of Gulf News archives
  • Published: 23:44 August 28, 2008
  • Gulf News

August 23

UN resolution on Palestine
The UN Committee on Palestinian rights completed work on a draft resolution that would proclaim the rights of the Palestinian people to national independence, diplomatic sources said.

India polls again
India entered another period of prolonged political uncertainty when President Sanjiva Reddy dissolved parliament and ordered fresh general elections.

August 25

Dubai ruler leads the people in prayer
His Highness Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attended the Eid prayers at the newly-built Eid Musallah at Bur Dubai. The exchange of greetings began shortly after the prayers at the Musallah. Thousands greeted the Dubai Ruler.

Gaddafi pays $170 million for peace
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi paid high Mauritanian officials $170 million in cash for signing a peace treaty with the Polisario front guerrilla movement. In a peace agreement signed in Algiers on August 5, Mauritania abandoned all claims to the Tiris Al Gharbia region of the former Spanish Sahara.

August 26

US-USSR row over Bolshoi ballerina
A Soviet airliner with 115 people on board remained grounded at New York airport for the second day, caught in a Soviet-American tug of war over whether Ballerina Lyudmila Vlasova was leaving of her own free will.

Zimbabwe-Rhodesia to be known as Zimbabwe
Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa announced the word "Rhodesia" would be dropped from his country's name before next month's constitutional talks in London. The country would then become known simply as Zimbabwe.

August 27

Oil tanker sinks after explosion: one dead
A Singapore registered oil tanker exploded and sank in the Arabian Gulf off Abu Dhabi. One crew member was reported killed and two injured in the explosion. Five others are missing.

Gunmen kill Kayhan finance manager, wound owner
Gunmen killed the Financial Manager of the leading Tehran newspaper Kayhan and his son.

August 28

Remote-controlled bomb kills Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten, 79, uncle of Queen Elizabeth's Consort Prince Philip, was killed when his small boat was blown up by what Irish guerrillas said was a 50-pound bomb set off by remote control. The blast, heard two miles away, came minutes after the 29-foot cabin cruiser "Shadow Five" set off from Mullaghmore harbour on Ireland's west coast.

August 29

Backlash on Botha
Conservative whites in the ruling National Party are reacting bitterly to Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's efforts to eliminate some aspects of South Africa's segregation laws. The white backlash has been directed against changes proposed by Botha in education, labour and agriculture but feeling is running highest against integration in sports.

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