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From DC-3 to Concorde. Middle East can also boast of being the world's only airline to be run by an honest-to-Allah sheik. The man responsible for the line's rapid and unsubsidized climb is Najib Salim Alamuddin, 55, who inherited the title of sheik from a family long prominent in Lebanon's Druze sect, an Islamic offshoot founded in the llth century. Educated at the American University of Beirut, suave, sophisticated Sheik Alamuddin was running his own telecommunications company when he was asked to take over Middle East Airlines...
...Salim Hayidh, founder of Zanzibar's Umma Party, will speak on the recent revolution in Zanzibar tonight at a special meeting of the Quincy House African Table. Dinner is at 6 p.m. The talk begins at 6:45 p.m. in the Junior Common Room
TIME Correspondent Israel Schenker last week called on the Premier, who lives with his wife, a medically trained midwife, and their two-year-old son Salim in a small, white, two-story house in a quiet residential district of Tunis. An F.L.N. .guard was at the door; inside the hall lay a child's Teddy bear. In an era of flamboyant revolutionary figures such as Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Indonesia's mercurial Sukarno, Benkhedda is something of a surprise. Of medium height and medium age (42), diffident in manner, ascetic in habits, with his voice emotionlessly...
Apparently, Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem had thought he was only offering an Arab pleasantry when he announced his intent to "liberate" oil-rich Kuwait. He was amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After...
...King Saud of Saudi Arabia to the neighboring sheikdom of Kuwait. A Connecticut-sized chunk of desert bordering on the Persian Gulf, Kuwait is so rich from oil that it literally does not know what to do with all its money. Kuwait's portly ruler, Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah, has an annual income of $200 million but modestly keeps only one wife and a single Cadillac. Saud has a yearly income of $320 million, keeps four wives, some 100 concubines, countless cars...