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...given leaders everywhere plenty of reason to worry since he took power in a 1969 military coup. With the country's approximately $10 billion in annual revenues, mostly from oil, the ascetic, fanatically religious Gaddafi has become, among other things, one of the world's foremost backers of terrorism and insurrection. Pursuing a dream of a Libyan-led Islamic sphere of influence, he has fomented a coup against the regime of Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, expropriated land from neighboring Chad, and edged relations with Egypt perilously close to outright war. Despite these foreign excesses, he remains securely...
Died. Alexander Calder, 78, America's foremost sculptor...
...Cordova, the first, foremost and only thing is to play. "Everyone's personal desires and motivations are different," he says. "Mine are to play...
Described by the moderator as "the nation's foremost New Journalist," Wolfe gave examples of European influence in art, literature, music and architecture...
...fact that Kissinger looks out first and foremost for the interests of U. S. business is thus not exactly unusual. It says more about the system he represents than about his personal preferences...