Word: benghazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land is under cultivation, and even workable farm land has been ignored as inflation, and the illusory promise of jobs spurred an exodus from the countryside. Even the nomad Bedouins have left the desert to live in the filth-ridden shantytowns that now encircle Tripoli and Benghazi. What little industry or trade exists, besides the oil business, is mainly controlled by Italians...
...week's end, the Revolutionary Council confirmed that its troops had occupied Benghazi, the principal city of Cyrenaica in eastern Libya and stronghold of King Idris and his Senussi sect. The continuation of the curfew suggested that the rebels might be encountering opposition, possibly from the more than 6,000-man British-trained Cyrenaican militia or the national police force, which is almost twice the size of the 10,000-man Libyan army. Radio Tripoli was heard urging rebel troops to seize the "police helicopters" and to "be ready to counter any internal and external acts against the republic...
...fever was high enough already. Cascading around the U.S. embassies and cultural centers in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Benghazi, Tunis, Algiers, Amman and Khartoum, the ever-ready Arab mobs screamed obscenities. Windows were shattered in the Lebanese and Syrian U.S. embassies, and official cars-ignited by the mobs-burned fiercely in embassy compounds...
Encroaching Desert. Smart shops in Tripoli and Benghazi-the twin capitals-display Dior dresses, footwear from Italy and tape recorders from Japan. Auto agencies do a brisk business, and visitors are warned to watch both ways for "first-generation drivers" -registrations have risen from 12,000 to 55,000 in five years-as well as for gaping chuckholes in the streets, beneath which Tripoli is installing its first modern sewer system. New hotels and apartment houses are sprouting like desert flowers; three new hotels worth $10 million will soon be started in Tripoli alone. A small upper-middle class...
...labor to meet the demands of oil companies and the booming construction industry, not enough competent administrators to channel oil revenues into properly planned projects, not enough trained government officials willing to make decisions. Rents and prices have more than doubled in five years. On the outskirts of Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk have grown up squalid Bidonvilles where thousands of Bedouins, attracted from the desert by the lure of the city, live in houses made of shipping crates and lift vans, vainly waiting for wealth to come to them. Meanwhile, the desert is slowly but inexorably encroaching on agricultural land...