Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another Arab oil embargo as a way of achieving Palestinian goals; it is also busy purging "undesirables"-meaning Palestinians who profited from looting or black-marketeering during the Lebanese civil war-from its ranks. Rejectionists who cannot accept the idea of Israeli statehood are also free to leave for Libya to work for Muammar Gaddafi, the last remaining Arab leader who still holds the Israel-into-the-sea view. In fact, they have nowhere else to turn...
...thrown off its Soviet influence. So has the Sudan, which is currently aiding the Eritrean secessionists in Ethiopia even though its Soviet-furnished army and air force are short of equipment; the Sudanese suffered considerable losses while putting down an attempted coup last year that allegedly was backed by Libya, the most steadfast of the remaining Soviet clients in the region. Libya, of course, has just finished fighting a weekend war with Egypt, which abrogated its friendship treaty with Moscow only last year. Egypt has also warned Libya to knock off its guerrilla activities against Chad, a former French territory...
Stern and Spain's Interviu also reported that Berg resided in the Canary Islands until recently and appeared every night at a bar in Puerto de la Cruz with a harem of girls looking for pickups. The Stern report said he fled to Libya earlier this year, when an investigating judge summoned him for questioning...
Publicly, Egypt insisted that its bitter four-day mini-war with Libya (TIME, Aug. 1) had been no more than a minor border skirmish. A series of frontier infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...
Attempted Coup. The first target -possibly three months hence-was to be Sudan, where President Jaafar Numeiry last year survived an attempted coup. Since then, Numeiry has followed Sadat's example by ordering all his Soviet military advisers back to Moscow. Cairo believes that Libya planned a twopronged assault on Numeiry: an Ethiopian-sponsored uprising in the Sudanese south, combined with Libyan air attacks from Al Kufra. Another target was to be Chad, where Libya has not only seized large chunks of disputed border territory but also supports a leftist insurgent movement that aims to oust President Felix Malloum...