Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amin's security forces. Soon reports had "hundreds" of innocent Ugandan refugees fleeing the murderous wrath of Big Daddy's goon squads-a not uncommon occurrence in Uganda. Nairobi's Daily-Nation reported that Amin was being treated for his wounds in "a friendly country, probably Libya...
...tramp steamer that carried the uranium oxide from Antwerp to the eastern Mediterranean is not likely to be involved in so adventurous a mission again. Last week the salt-caked Kerkyra returned empty to the Greek port of Halkis, after carrying a load of cement to Benghazi in Libya on its regular run. Beneath the paint of the new name, dockside onlookers can still discern welded letters spelling out the old, outlined in cement dust. Scheersberg A has come in out of the cold...
...Stansfield Turner, making what he called his "most difficult decision in 31 years of military service," fired two middle-level agency employees for "lack of good judgment." Their mistake, Turner told the Senate Intelligence Committee, was helping a former colleague to purchase 500 explosive timing devices to sell to Libya. When he learned of the situation, said Turner, he "lost a lot of sleep" and "worked hard for some days to decide what was fair to them and best for the welfare of our intelligence operations." CIA sources identified the purchaser of the devices as Edwin Wilson...
...time he reached Addis Ababa last week, Castro had already stopped in Algeria, Libya, South Yemen and Somalia, a desert land where Soviet influence is particularly strong. From there, he proceeded to Ethiopia, Somalia's neighbor and archenemy. His presence in Addis Ababa must have pleased the current military boss, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, since Castro is the first head of state to visit Ethiopia since the country's squabbling junta (known as the Dergue) dumped the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Mengistu was believed to have asked Castro for military aid, but there were...
However, Fell is no von Daniken, sensationalizing about beings from outer space. Fell says those South American inscriptions and artifacts, which von Daniken attributes to spacemen, are really the work of ancient voyagers from Libya...