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...mystery began when the Imam and two aides flew from Beirut to Tripoli, ostensibly to attend ceremonies commemorating the 1969 coup that brought Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi to power. But the Imam was not to be seen at festivities in the Libyan capital. Instead, it was announced that he and his party were departing for Italy the day before the scheduled celebrations. Although he was booked on an Alitalia flight to Rome, the crew, when questioned later, did not remember the highly visible Imam-who is more than 6 ft. tall, bearded, and wears the imposing robes of an Islamic...
...hardliners, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and P.L.O. Boss Yasser Arafat, even undertook a sudden trip to Jordan to try to persuade their longtime enemy, King Hussein, to boycott the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations. It was an extraordinary idea?Hussein and Arafat had not met on Jordanian soil since 1970, the year that the P.L.O. virtually seized control of Amman until the King attacked and expelled them. Hussein quickly rejected the new ploy. "The King," said a Jordanian official, "will not respond to any appeals or pressures, and his moderate stance remains the same...
...diplomacy of this period was the decision by the Israeli government in July 1977 to advise Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia of some important information that Israeli intelligence had learned: namely, that leftist Arab extremists, trained in Libya and supported by that country's radical leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, were plotting to overthrow the moderate governments in Cairo, Khartoum and Riyadh. Acting on the information provided by Israel, those governments quickly arrested a number of the plotters. Sadat went further: he launched heavy commando raids against...
When the four-day summit convened last week, there were some inevitable absentees. Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, for instance, had been overthrown by a military coup shortly before he was supposed to leave for Nouakchott Airport to catch a plane to Khartoum. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, as usual, preferred to stay home, sending in his place a quarrelsome delegation that threw the sessions into an occasional uproar by picking fights with neighboring Chad. Nonetheless, 35 leaders of the OAU's 49 member states were on hand, the largest muster in the organization's history...
...same velvet-gloved approach characterizes his conduct of foreign affairs. In the Arab world, the Saudis are resented by some of their Islamic brethren as nouveau riche desert barbarians. But Fahd is on speaking terms with almost every leader (one notable exception: Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who refuses to deal with him). On the theory that Saudi Arabia's first line of defense is diplomatic, he avoids quarrels even with Arab radicals, preferring to build as broad a range of contacts as he can. In the interests of preserving Arab unity, he has mediated between leftist Algeria and royalist Morocco...