From the pages of Gulf News dated May 24 to 30, 1979

May 24

Trudeau ousted

JOE Clark and his Progressive Conservative Party ended the 11-year rule of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Trudeau said he would ask Canada's governor-general to appoint Joe Clark, 39, as prime minister. Results from the general election left the Progressive Conservatives a handful of seats short of an absolute majority in the House of Commons.

May 26

276 killed in air crash

AT least 276 people were killed in the worst air crash in US history when a DC-10 jet crashed shortly after take-off from Chicago's O'Hare airport and wreckage slid into a caravan camp. Officials said all 264 passengers and 12 crew died aboard the American Airlines plane to Los Angeles.

May 27

Sadat hoists flag

EGYPTIAN President Anwar Sadat has hoisted the Egyptian flag over Al Arish, a dusty desert town overlooking the Mediterranean, and lit a ceremonial torch to signal the end of 12 years of Israeli occupation. Al Arish was a naval town before its occupation in the 1967 Middle East war.

May 28

Bouceif dies in air crash

MAURITANIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Ould Bouceif died in an air crash near the Senegalese capital of Dakar. The premier's plane crashed into the sea in bad weather north of Dakar airport and rescue workers said there was no hope of finding survivors.

Israel-Egypt borders opened

ISRAELI Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat declared that the borders between their two countries were now open. Under the peace pact signed in Washington, Israel and Egypt were originally supposed to have waited for nine months before opening their frontiers.

May 29

US grounds DC-10s

THE US Federal Aviation Administration ordered the grounding of all US-registered DC-10 airliners from midnight pacific time. The agency said airlines would be permitted to put the jets back in service as soon as they have inspected an engine pod bolt held to be a contributory factor in a crash at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in which 273 people died.

May 30

Liquor ban from June 1

THE sale and use of liquor in Dubai will be forbidden from June 1. The Vice-President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum has issued a decree forbidding the sale and use of liquor in Dubai.

Muzorewa sworn in

RHODESIA'S first black Prime Minister was sworn into office, ending 90 years of white-only rule in the former British colony. Abel Muzorewa, a United Methodist bishop, was sworn in shortly after being asked to form a government by Zimbabwe-Rhodesia's first black President, Joseph Gumede.

- Clippings from Gulf News archives, compiled by Abdul Rahim Abdul Kareem, Head of Archives