Word: salem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the ruling family actively aiding the Palestinians is Ali Salem al-Sabah, the resistance leader who left his doctoral studies in California to return to Kuwait after Iraq's invasion. With the help of his father, the commander of Kuwait's national guard, Salem has moved 800 jailed Palestinians into Kuwait's juvenile prison. "Life is better for them at what we call Ali's prison," says Salman al-Sabah, the head of Kuwait's state security service. "Ali has spent thousands of dollars of his own money for ! mattresses and linens and to have food catered...
...Salem suffers no illusions. He knows his efforts are merely temporary. "I've given up freeing them so they can live in Kuwait," he says, "even though most have no charges filed against them. The best I've been able to do is improve conditions and try to organize a few subsidized charter flights so some can leave. And believe me, none of it would be possible if the government weren't made to see that the $60,000 a year to keep each one of them in jail was stupid. It is less expensive simply to kick them...
...outside will invest here if our leaders are trembling? And what interest rates will we have to pay when the government borrows in the international markets if Kuwait is deemed a security risk? Nothing Saad could have said would have been dumber." What is now certain as well, admits Salem Abdulaziz al-Sabah, the governor of Kuwait's Central Bank, "is that there will be a run on bank accounts when the current withdrawal restrictions expire...
...noticing. Everyone in the northwestern portion of the state is too busy trying to keep track of Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff of folklore...
...Hollywood puts a human twist on the familiar tales of Hollywood mass production and megalomania. One sequence tracks the relay team of writers hired by producer-director Ivan Reitman to massage the script of Kindergarten Cop. ("I felt he was somewhat written out," says Reitman of original writer Murray Salem. Says Salem: "He was not that friendly to me.") James Caan recalls career missteps that included turning down the lead roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer...