A daily pick of news events that happened on this day in history from the pages of Gulf News dated October 21, 1978.
Work permits health shock
Sick and injured people will in future have to produce a work permit before they can receive medical treatment at hospitals in Dubai.
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An order has gone out from Dubai's Municipality to doctors and nurses not to treat people unless they produce the permit. But introduction of the new regulation is being delayed by medical authorities until the backlog in the issuing of work permits is cleared up.
It can take up to three months before the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs processes an application for a work permit. This had led to very real fears that people needing medical treatment at hospitals in Dubai would be turned away.
1,500 guerrillas killed in raids inside Zambia
Rhodesia said its troops had killed at least 1,500 black guerrillas in a three-day thrust deep inside Zambia - and the Zambian government said its forces had become involved in the fighting.
Versions of the logistics and casualty figures in the Rhodesian raids varied widely between Salisbury and Lusaka. In Salisbury, military headquarters said the Rhodesian raiders had now returned home with the loss of only one man. The military said its estimate of 1,500 fatalities in Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front guerrilla army had been substantiated by Zambian estimates.
UAE debut for the new Toyotas
Toyota have unveiled their plans to take an even stronger hold of the UAE car market with the release of their 1979 models.
The car giants picked the unveiling ceremony to coincide with the opening of Al-Futtaim's new showroom on the Airport Road.
The Al-Futtaim organisation has handled the outlets for the Japanese firm since 1955, when they sold their first vehicle. Ten years later they were selling 55 cars a year but now they have reached gigantic proportions where their sales for last year topped the 12,000 mark.
