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Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is lavish with both words and money. Last week he took five hours-quite a stretch for Arabs who love prolix oratory-to extol pan-Arabism. Arab states, he insisted, do not need "Communism, fascism, foreign capitalism or liberalism." Instead, they are capable of...
Gaddafi has pushed for a union of Arab socialist states almost since he overthrew Libya's King Idris two years ago. He has given money lavishly to the other nations, drawing on Libyan oil revenues, which now reach $2 billion annually. What Gaddafi got for his money is still...
YOU know," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser mused during an Arab meeting in Cairo shortly before his death last year, "I rather like Gaddafi. He reminds me of myself when I was that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi...
In Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has toned down the anti-Western posture he struck after deposing antique King Idris in 1969. Gaddafi, who has apparently come to the belated realization that he was isolating himself from practically everybody but Cairo and Moscow, has moved hesitantly toward renewed relations with the...
The New Savior. A handsome man with a lean, hollow-cheeked look, Gaddafi is known for his brashness and impetuosity. One of his first acts since he overthrew King Idris and became head of state in September 1969 was to take down the foreign-language street signs in his dreary...