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...much to do with such attitudes. Religion alone is not strong enough to withstand Communism if other conditions are right; Catholic Cuba and Confucianist China demonstrated that. But Islam has a permeating discipline in Arab culture that shapes politics and unites even dissident leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Gaddafi subscribes to the same simplistic explanation of the new order offered by Nasser before his death: "The reason that Arab socialism is different from Communism is because our socialism believes in God while Communism is atheistic...
...wandering around," vowed a loyalist government minister as mass arrests and summary trials were carried out. At least 1,000 had been arrested by week's end. Among those executed were two officers who had been pulled off a British airplane two weeks ago by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi and handed over to Numeiry. Lieut. Colonel Babakr al Nour, who had been flying home to Khartoum from London, denied prior knowledge of the plot against Numeiry. Then why had Nour been named leader of the new rebel government? Numeiry asked. "Was it because of your beautiful brown eyes?" Unable...
Arabs applauded after the Libyan coup when Gaddafi expelled 25,000 Italian coloni, ousted U.S. and British military forces, converted the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Mosque of Gamal Abdel Nasser (with Gaddafi's picture plastered on the crucifix), nationalized foreign banks, and squeezed higher royalties out of 36 foreign oil companies...
More and more, Gaddafi has tended to ignore the plight of impoverished Libyans. His dual preoccupations are the destruction of Israel and, through lavish outlays of his country's oil money, making himself Nasser's successor as the leader of Pan-Arabism. He pays a $55 million annual subsidy to Egypt and, before Hussein cracked down on the fedayeen, he gave funds to Jordan as well, for the fight against Israel. Last fall, after General Hafez Assad seized power in Syria, Gaddafi insolently flew into Damascus to look him over. Apparently Gaddafi approved; he left Assad...
Both Nasser and Algeria's Houari Boumedienne have had the unsettling experience of learning that a plane with Gaddafi aboard was buzzing their capitals without their having the faintest notion of why he had come. During Morocco's recent abortive coup, he offered King Hassan's enemies military aid before he even knew what was happening or who the rebels were. Then came last week's capture of a BOAC jet and the kidnaping of two of its Sudanese passengers. Gaddafi is young, dedicated, naive and, some say, irrational as well. He certainly is as impetuous...