Word: adem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wishes of Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who demanded that the U.S. withdraw entirely from Wheelus airbase outside the city. The base was used for bombing and gunnery training for NATO-assigned U.S. fighter squadrons. In similar sessions, the British also agreed to give up smaller bases at Tobruk and El Adem...
...Tripoli proclaimed "a revolutionary Libya, a socialist Libya," representatives of the 40-odd foreign oil companies (38 of them American) were assured on two separate occasions that their investments were safe. U.S., British and French diplomats heard promises of friendship and good faith. At the British airbase at El Adem, near Tobruk, and at the huge, $100 million Wheelus airbase, manned by some 3,000 Americans, the commanders tactfully suspended training flights, and the new regime requested that the flights remain suspended "temporarily." In every case, the spokesmen for the new regime were junior officers-lieutenants and captains. Nobody could...
...built a well-trained, 7,000-man army, and has quietly warned Egypt's Nasser that in case of aggression he would not hesitate to call for help from the U.S.'s Wheelus Air Force Base near Tripoli and Britain's R.A.F. staging base at El Adem outside Tobruk...