Word: libya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years old and a loud-voiced, hulking 6 ft. 4 in. when World War I broke out. But though twice wounded and twice decorated, he found himself among Italy's millions of jobless at war's end. When the government called for volunteers to "pacify" Libya, Graziani rejoined the army. A year later Benito Mussolini, the new Fascist leader, took over, and Graziani was on his way to becoming a hero again...
...State Department Aide John L. Tappin became the first U.S. Ambassador to Libya (the legation there was raised to embassy status...
...Britain's best troops, some of whom might be used better in Malaya and elsewhere. The 5,000-sq. mi. area, crammed with men and materiel, is a sitting duck for a thermonuclear attack; the Queen's Middle East forces would be deployed in Libya, Cyprus and Jordan...
...descended on their victims. The fellagha, rising up in Tunisia's rich but savage hinterland, so far number about 400 fighters, led by Lazhar Cheraiti, who a year and a half ago was a transient laborer. The French claim that the fellagha were trained across the border in Libya by former French prisoners of the Viet Minh, brainwashed by their Communist captors. The French also say that the Arab League, the Communists and the Neo-Destour are at work with the fellagha, though the independence-seeking Neo-Destour Party stoutly insists it disapproves of violence and excess...
...Tripoli, Libya...