Word: libya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lands, the Germans last year launched what they called, with a typical talent for uninspiring nomenclature, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (German Development Service). Applications poured in by the thousands, and 78 volunteers have already completed the intensive twelve-week training course. They are now training workers at an auto plant in Libya, teaching at trade schools in Afghanistan and working with farmers in India. Last week 23 German volunteers flew into Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania, to begin building 5,000 new apartments in a slum-clearance project...
...money was raised, Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah of oil-rich Kuwait left the horse shoe conference table for the men's room. But last week Sabah pledged $4,500,000 a year for five years to the Arab war chest, and Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco and Yemen joined in, raising the total commitments to $14 million annually for the next five years...
Purposeful Arms. Prince Feisal will probably try to keep the Yemen issue off the Arab summit's agenda and may be supported by the more or less conservative Arab states of Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. Nasser's effort to get Arab backing for his Yemen stand against "the British imperialists and Saudi infiltrators" may be backed by Algeria, Kuwait, and his new-found bosom friend, King Hussein of Jordan. Syria, whose Baathist rulers detest Nasser, and Lebanon, which hates quarrels, will probably stay on the sidelines...
...start of his fourth quarter-century caught up with Historian Arnold Toynbee at the University of Libya in Bengasi during a lecture tour of Africa. At the request of his longtime publishers, Oxford University Press, he had left behind an essay, which was released on his birthday. His exploration of history from its start to the present, wrote the much-honored author, provided the "fulfillment of my aim. For my aim was to expand my horizon and my field to the limits of my capacity." Concluded he, in Greek verse...
...HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Highlights of Hope's Christmas tour of U.S. military bases in Turkey, Greece, Tripoli, Libya and Italy...