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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Gold. The effects of American aid to Libya are everywhere: the desert is beginning to bloom under U.S. irrigation engineers in places such as Wadi Caam, barren since the Roman aqueducts crumbled away. Last year the U.S. built 37 schools and equipped five teachers' training colleges (the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: Poor & Proud | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Despite all this, one knowledgeable U.S. diplomat admits that "the U.S. would never win in any popularity contest in Libya." Like all newly independent nations, Libya is extremely sensitive about its dependence. "We advise the American people to study the psychology of the Libyans," warned the newspaper At-Talia recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: Poor & Proud | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Most surprising of all is Libya's care fu.lly independent course in Arab politics. Nasser's picture smiles from thousands of shopwindows, Libyans listen nightly to Cairo radio, and-as in much of the Middle East-many of Libya's schoolteachers are Egyptian. But Libya refused to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: Poor & Proud | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

It was the first anniversary of the July 14 revolution in Iraq and for a week Baghdad was all holiday celebration. Down the hot, dusty streets where a year ago mobs dragged the mutilated bodies of Nuri asSaid and Crown Prince Abdul Illah, clowns danced, balloons bobbed, Girl Scouts marched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: One Year Later | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

But Kassem saved his real news for the middle of the Big Week. Addressing a graduation throng at Iraq's military college in his controlled staccato, he said: "I assure you that by next Jan. 6 we shall celebrate the formation of political parties," and went on-amid shouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: One Year Later | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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