Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptian demonstration to change his policy. The incident, however, underlined the differences within the P.L.O., contrasting Arafat's relatively moderate point of view with the harder revolutionary line of George Habash and other adherents of the "rejection front," which includes not only the more militant fedayeen groups but Libya and Iraq as well...
...already rich in money and energy supplies, North Sea oil means a chance to become richer still as the "blue-eyed Arabs of the North." By the 1980s, Norway could be producing 1.8 million bbl. daily-ten times its domestic needs-and exporting as much oil as Iraq and Libya do now. For the other North Sea participants-Denmark, The Netherlands and West Germany-the waters already promise abundant oil and natural gas. It was in Holland, in fact, that a giant onshore gas discovery in 1959 pointed rightly to further riches under the North...
...Complications developed when Malaysian officials could find no country willing to accept the terrorists. Iran even threatened to shoot down the plane if it overflew the country with hijackers aboard. As negotiations continued, a nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise sent 60 servings to the hostages. Finally, word came that Libya, a well-known supporter of radical movements, would take the ten men. The five terrorists, prodding U.S. Consul Robert Stebbins and 14 other hostages with pistols, boarded a bus for the airport. There they waited a further 25 hours before exchanging the 15 men for four Japanese and Malaysian officials...
...their political payments and to agree not to make any more. Some have complied, others are resisting. Last week Ashland Oil Inc. argued that securities laws do not require public disclosure of the recipients of questionable payments that the company says it has made in Nigeria, Gabon, Libya and the Dominican Republic. Ashland has already supplied the names...
...domestic and foreign policy. He decries average living and working conditions, the "lumpenization" of the Russian proletariat ("Per capita consumption of alcohol is twice what it was in tsarist Russia"). He also chastises the government for its "Russification" of ethnic minorities in the U.S.S.R., its support of dictatorships in Libya and Uganda, and genocide against the Kurds in Iraq. In a highly technical chapter on disarmament, he draws upon his own scientific expertise to discuss the problems posed by "heavy" missiles, "dirty" weapons and "throwweight...