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The handsome, square-jawed Gaddafi wasted little time in building his reputation. Shortly after leading the 1969 army coup that deposed 80-year-old King Idris, Gaddafi, then only 27, began to apply his peculiar blend of Islamic fundamentalism, Arab nationalism and desert-bred xeno phobia to his country. He...
...armed men stormed the house of two stonecutters, Abdel Aziz Idris and his brother Hussein. Every window in their house, which they had built themselves, was broken. The Idris children and Abdel's pregnant wife were beaten before an Israeli army patrol arrived to rescue them. The Idrises do not know why they were targeted. "We enjoyed good neighborly relations," says Abdel Idris, "but after the murder of the Israeli youth, we were told again and again, 'If you won't leave your home, we shall beat you up.' " Counters Zeev Friedman, the newly elected head...
Rebels. He went on to Libya's military academy, where he gradually won over his classmates to the cause of revolution-and each class revolutionized its successors. Says Gaddafi: "We decided that we could make the revolution when we got half the officers in the Libyan army. By 1969...
Troubled Time. In the past two years Occidental has fallen into trouble. Production in Libya, the backbone of its operations, has been on a roller coaster and has never reached the mil-lion-barrels-a-day level that Hammer once forecast. The Libyan government ordered it cut from a high...
Gaddafi mysteriously disappeared from sight for a time last year, and there are rumors that he suffers bouts of severe depression. But he remains firmly in charge of the youthful (average age: 28) clique of officers who overthrew Idris; in addition to being chief of state, he holds no fewer...