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At the beginning of 1978, Gaddafi's Libya, once one of the more backward and impoverished of the Arab countries, had few friends abroad. A radical who considers the Palestine Liberation Organization too moderate, Gaddafi had vociferously opposed the peace overtures of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Egyptian and...
It was the gentlest military strike in modern history. In three Puma helicopters and two Hercules C-130 transports, a combined force of 230 British marines and French paratroopers swooped down on the sleepy New Hebrides island of Espiritu Santo. They were armed and ready for combat. But the invading...
Pertini at the 16th century Quirinale Palace, the President changed into jogging togs. He ran round and round the palace, through a vast garden of magnolia and palm trees. Next morning he met with Pertini in the Sala d'Ercole (Room of Hercules) and reported that he had run...
Other projects that have received funding range from $39,000 for a windmill in an abandoned area of New York's South Bronx that provides the electricity to turn vegetable waste into compost, to $7,450 for an artificial lagoon in Hercules, Calif., to purify water and make methane...
From Illinois' Scott Air Force Base, the Military Airlift Command dispatched C-141 Starlifters and C-130 Hercules cargo craft to carry ambulances, trucks, tents and even a mobile hospital to the refugee centers. Field kitchens, showers and 27 tons of C rations were flown in. Carter yielded to...