Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holding two hand grenades aloft, the girl then herded the startled passengers into the tourist section of the plane, where three male comrades-a German and two Arabs-were already in control. With that, 242 passengers and twelve crew members began a terrifying odyssey that first took them to Libya for refueling (where a pregnant passenger was allowed to go free) and then to Uganda's Entebbe Airport. As the horror of what was happening sank in, a French oil executive moaned: "My God! This is my second skyjacking. I can't survive another...
...Neutral. Moreover, there was the increasingly alarming role played by Amin, who has been a vociferous champion of Arab causes since 1972, when he abruptly severed relations with Israel. (In return, Uganda has received generous financial aid from such Arab states as Libya, Kuwait and Algeria.) From the time the skyjackers landed at Entebbe, Amin had scarcely acted like a neutral participant in the drama. He described the skyjackers' demands as "very reasonable," and advised the Israeli hostages to "tell your government to solve the Palestinian problem...
...agreement was a disappointment for Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amouzegar, who led a bloc of OPEC hardliners, including representatives from Algeria, Libya and Venezuela. They argued for a price boost of 10% to 15% on grounds that inflation in the industrial nations has eaten into OPEC'S buying power. Iran, which has huge development bills to pay, has been badly hurt by the recession-induced drop in world petroleum demand and the consequent fall-off in oil revenues...
Cairo seeks new arms because the Soviets have provided virtually none since the 1973 war, while generously refurbishing the Syrian army and advancing $1 billion in military goods to an Arab wild man, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Moscow intimates that Egypt's staggering debt for previous goods and services-still about $6 billion, including commercial loans-is a reason for the slowdown. Sadat in private conversations gives probably a more accurate reason. He accuses the Soviets of attempting to overthrow him by generating unrest in Egypt in revenge for his participating in U.S. step-by-step diplomacy...
...tanks from the U.S. and Britain, and has an additional 500 on order; it will also soon receive 128 fighter jets from the U.S. and France. Iraq is beefing up its arsenal with orders to the Soviets for 40 MIG-23s in addition to the 30 they already have. Libya last year signed a $2 billion arms deal with the Soviets that includes 24 MIG-23s, 1,100 tanks, 800 armored personnel carriers and 50 batteries of antiaircraft missiles. Since these enormous quantities are well beyond Libya's defense needs, Israeli officials view them as a kind of "Arab...