Word: libya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocational education, who retired as Bade County superintendent of schools in 1952, asked for a challenging assignment when he offered his services to the U.S. Point Four program. "I decided," says Johnson, "to come out to a foreign land to do some good for other people." Stationed first in Libya, Johnson was transferred after 26 months to Thailand in March 1955, with his wife Elsie took over as livestock adviser...
...discovering once more that it takes only a brief spell of quiet to revive the ancient animosities and divisions that have made Arab unity largely fiction ever since the Prophet's heirs fell out more than 1,300 years ago. Egypt was embroiled with its neighbors-the Sudan, Libya, Tunisia-as well as with others who, fearing the power of Nasser's propaganda, dared not defy him publicly. In Iraq, whose revolutionary regime seized power in the name of Arab unity, the ruling officers quarreled, and the uprising, far from ending the historic rivalry between Egypt and Iraq...
...name of the Algerian people," Ferhat Abbas, 58, announced the formation of a "government-in-exile" for the new Algerian republic "which considers itself in a state of war with France." Egypt's Nasser quickly hailed the "blessed step," and within 24 hours, Iraq, Yemen and Libya had recognized the nation. More reluctantly, since they fear repercussions from France, Tunisia and Morocco followed suit...
...Lebanon, Jordan, the U.A.R., Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Libya...
...latest count, Egypt had some 400 teacher-agitators in Kuwait, 1,000 in Saudi Arabia, 400 in Libya and 100 in Syria. Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid, killed in the July 14 revolt, had thrown Egyptian teachers out of his country, but last week, after the revolution, Cairo announced that a new detachment of 300 would be sent to help out the now friendly Iraq government. For Egypt, which has more teachers than it can use (the University of Cairo turns out huge classes of B.A.s each year, and there are too few schools to provide posts...