Word: libya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England, Scotland, France, French Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Libya, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Austria...
...Libya: the $58 million U.S. Air Force base at Tripoli...
Last week, as the Egyptian owners gave renewed signs of canceling her Suez lease, Britain sprang a surprise: a 20-year rental agreement for a new war store just across Egypt's western border. London agreed to pay Libya, the Middle East's newest and poorest kingdom (created by the U.N. out of Mussolini's African empire), a dole of $2,800,000 annually for at least five years for economic development, plus another $7,700,000 annually to balance her budget, in return for the right to base British troops and planes in Libya...
...Legion is the Arab world's finest army) and its army base on the island of Cyprus. Faced with getting out of the Suez, the British at first talked of expanding Cyprus, but ran afoul of Cyprus' lack of harbors and the disfavor of the Cypriotes. The Libya pact was the answer, and an adroit...
Next on Dulles' schedule: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Greece, Libya. Conspicuously absent: Mossadegh's Iran, which Dulles will fly over but not visit. Reported reason: the U.S. Secret Service rejected strife-torn Iran as unsafe for the visitors...