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...months ago the West felt welcome and secure in Libya, that huge 680,000-square-mile expanse of African desert between Tunisia and Egypt. Frail old King Idris was a firm friend of the West. So was young (35), balding Prime Minister Mustafa ben Halim. In exchange for a $10.5 million annual subsidy, Libya allowed the British to maintain a major air base near Tobruk, and when Premier Nasser forced the British out of the Suez Canal, the British also moved in an armored division. So far, the U.S. has contributed $12 million in Point Four aid and for maintenance...
...Cairo, a spry cousin of Egypt's ex-King Farouk, former Nobleman Abbas Halim, digressed slightly while trying to prove to a revolutionary court that he is no traitor. According to Halim, 56 and sexy, Farouk. for all his leering and prancing, is a bush-league lover. "Farouk had an inferiority complex with women," Halim testified. "This is why he ran so much after them. He wanted to show he was tough with the fair sex. Whenever we were competing to gain a lady's favor, I won out without difficulty." With the court hanging on every word...