The World - News from July 28, 1985
Kuwait, the target of several recent terrorist attacks, has barred all Lebanese citizens from traveling on its national airline, aviation sources reported in Beirut. A senior Kuwait Airways official denied the report, but Salim Salam, chairman of Middle East Airlines, Lebanon’s national carrier, said Kuwait has asked his firm to stop making connecting reservations for flights on the Kuwaiti airline, which does not fly into Beirut. The sources said the unprecedented ban is expected to mainly affect passengers traveling from Beirut to Kuwait on Middle East Airlines.
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