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...year-old head of Libya's Revolutionary Command Council, celebrated the first six months of his military rule with a 31-hour press conference in Tripoli's old parliament building. In his first such appearance, Gaddafi was ill at ease, chauvinistic and snappish. When TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott asked under what conditions Libya might place the planes that it is purchasing from France at the service of Egypt, Gaddafi bristled. "The issue," he snapped, "is not the use by Egypt of these arms. Rather, it is the question of American sympathy for Israel. Since Israel has expansionist ambitions...
Weary of the War. "The front is now within earshot," a Western resident of Cairo told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott last week, "but it is still divorced from public opinion." Doubt and disenchantment could soon change that. Cairo's upper classes are plainly weary of the war; each year 15,000 well-educated Egyptians emigrate, many to Canada, despite blocked funds and other difficulties. The lower classes, who account for much of the city's population of 5,000,000, still believe whatever the government radio tells them; the bureaucrats who owe their jobs to the regime...
Libya's new rulers are stressing their allegiance to the stern precepts of Islam. One of the junta's first decrees was to outlaw beer and whisky. In Tripoli TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott discovered that "up" and "down" elevator buttons had been covered by tape to obscure the offending English words. All foreign-language street signs were removed. Because the menus must be printed only in Arabic, waiters in hotels must translate aloud the list of dishes to non-Arabic-speaking diners. To their great embarrassment, hotel guests are confusing the Arabic equivalents of "ladies" and "gents...
...Eastern semi-finalist Mark Faller, though not in top form, had little trouble with the Cardinal's Bill Gavin in a 7-1 win, and Tony Rayner (177) came through with an impressive 9-0 victory for the Crimson...
...Died. Gavin Maxwell, 55, Scottish writer and naturalist, of cancer; in Edinburgh, Scotland. Solitary by disposition, more intrigued by animals than by people, Maxwell mined the world's far reaches for his many books. In Harpoon Venture (1952), he recounted his experiences hunting sharks off the craggy coasts of the Hebrides; travels among Iraqi Arabs led to People of the Reeds (1957). But it was his tender relationship with two otters in the remote Scottish highlands, retold in Ring of Bright Water (1960), that brought him his greatest acclaim. "Stage one on the way to understanding human beings...