Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kills me to hear the propaganda and false niceties from the lips of men like Libya's Gaddafi and the P.L.O.'s Arafat [April 9]. How can the Palestinians expect the world to take them seriously as long as they allow themselves to be led by terrorist criminals like Arafat...
...stand is not universally popular. Despite a policy of reconciliation aimed at ending the intrigues and coups that have plagued the Sudan since it became independent in 1956, Nimeiri still faces opposition from the National Front led by Anwar Sadiq al-Mahdi, who advocates an Islamic state like neighboring Libya. If Sadat were to fall from power, Nimeiri almost certainly would as well...
Soviet Union. During a 1977 visit to Moscow by Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev proposed opening a Soviet consulate in Benghazi. Fine, said Gaddafi, Libya would like a consulate in Tashkent. "Why Tashkent?" asked Brezhnev. "Because I understand there are a lot of Muslims in that part of Russia," Gaddafi answered, "and I'd like to take care of them." Obviously unwilling to give the fiery Libyan a chance to arouse religious feelings among the Soviet Union's 50 million Muslims, the Kremlin leaders shelved the notion. The Muslims of the U.S.S.R. constitute a demographic time...
...Uganda. The Front was also prepared to establish a new government in Kampala once the city was firmly under its control. No one could be quite sure when that would happen. Amin might decide to make a brave last stand at Jinja, or he might simply flee to either Libya or neighboring Kenya. But it was also not beyond belief that Big Daddy would simply disappear into the bush, and carry on with a government-in-exile somewhere in the wilds of northern Uganda...
...bravado was quickly underscored by a rash of surcharge announcements. Algeria and Libya both added $4-per-bbl. premiums to their much-in-demand low-sulfur oil, as did Nigeria, a nation that has made a practice of haphazardly squandering its petrodollars almost as blithely as Americans waste oil. Kuwait, Iran and Venezuela tacked on $1.20-per-bbl. surcharges. Mexico, though not an OPEC member, also got in on the gouging game; it added...