Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petroleum burned in the U.S. The oil price explosion has sent the average cost of gasoline from 350 per gal. four years ago to 700 today, and that figure is sure to rise as a result of the latest increases by Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Algeria and other OPEC members. Spot shortages of low-polluting unleaded gasoline are already occurring, and its price is expected to climb to $1 or more a gallon in the next year...
This time, no one seems to want to lend even rhetorical assistance to Amin. Neither the United Nations nor the Organization of African Unity has condemned the invasion, despite his appeals. Amin may have managed to buy a few weapons from Iraq, but his traditional arms suppliers, Libya and the Soviet Union, apparently have cut off his credit. At least a third of Amin's 21,000-man army is now composed of Nubian mercenaries from southern Sudan, a group he trusts more than his own countrymen, and morale is at an all time...
Rita M. Breen, lecturer on History, said that with the exception of Libya, African countries would probably not come to Amin...
Though the capital appears to be in Habre's hands, his hold on power is scarcely secure. The northern two-thirds of Chad remains under the control of the Libyan-backed Chad National Liberation Front (FROLINAT). Habre headed the front until last year, when he broke with Libya after its President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, seized another chunk of northern Chad...
...basic price to $13.34 per bbl. The cartel had scheduled a raise in steps to $14.55 by October. But at the present rate of increase, oil from Abu Dhabi and Qatar then would be selling at $16.32 per bbl. Other oil producers, notably such anti-Western militants as Libya and Iraq, are expected to make similar increases. Says one top U.S. oil company official: "I guess now the sky's the limit...