Word: salim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Sheik Sabah as Salim as-Sabah, 62, Emir of Kuwait; of a heart attack; in Kuwait. After succeeding his brother in 1965, he curbed oil production to conserve the enormous reserve that gives the Persian Gulf sheikdom the highest per capita gross national product in the world ($11,510 a year) and pays for its lavish welfare services. He was a strong supporter of Arab unity and a heavy financial backer of Egypt, Jordan and Syria...
...gained the support of the other Western members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Canada and West Germany) for a carefully worded resolution that would impose the arms sanctions and also brand South Africa "a threat to international peace and security." With the help of Tanzania's Ambassador Salim Salim and Nigeria's Leslie Harriman, Young then began negotiations with the 49-member African group, the U.N.'s largest bloc. Most of the Africans favored the far stronger action of all-out economic sanctions, but Young argued that such a resolution would almost certainly lead...
Although all four have been invited, the association does not know who the speaker will be because none of the men has replied yet, Dr. Salim M. Walji, a research fellow in Surgery and a member of association's board said yesterday...
...election was brief as only seven HUISA members ran for the seven available posts. Rafi Ahmed, Ramani A. Aiyer, Henri Gillet, Mary T. Lynch, Felix Twaalhoven '79, Salim Walji and John D. Weston '80 will take over next year from the present governing board, which was appointed last November by Faculty advisers Archie C. Epps, dean of students, and Jennifer Stephens, director of the International Office...
...Arabia, six Arab leaders who are most deeply concerned with the war met at the invitation-or command, considering the weight of his oil subsidies to other Arab nations-of the Saudis' King Khalid. At the end of the two-day summit, the six-Khalid, Sheik Sabah as Salim as-Sabah of Kuwait, the Presidents of Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, and Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat-had hammered out an agreement that will strengthen Syria's hand as a peacemaker in Lebanon and drastically reduce the fighting power of the hapless Palestinians. Leaders on both sides in the Lebanon...