Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alert the Army! Berserk with anger, Big Daddy declared that Hills would be shot on July 4, unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan visits Uganda in the meantime. Trembling, Amin shouted to his defense council, "Alert the army! Alert the air force! Call Libya [an ally whose leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is a fellow Moslem and fellow eccentric] and tell her to start sending airplanes here!" Later, complaining that Blair had been "undiplomatic, hot-tempered and totally drunk" during the talks, Amin charged that the envoy had threatened to order "British troops from Kenya" to invade Uganda, and that Britain...
...alienate Israel. In such a case, the U.S. would be of as little help to Egypt in moving toward peace as the Soviets currently are. With no diplomatic links to Jerusalem, Moscow is unable to do much mediating; worse, the Soviets recently signed a massive military-aid agreement with Libya that Egyptians took as a direct slap at them...
...coziness with the Americans, are insisting that he pay up. "They won't even give me a period of grace," Sadat complained recently. "They won't even replenish Egypt's arms losses of the 1973 war. Yet they have agreed to give arms to Libya in legendary dimensions...
...last month when ten Spanish soldiers based in the Sahara disappeared. Their fate remains unknown. It has also been reported that Moroccan troops fired on two Spanish helicopters. Another headache for Madrid is the Prolisario Front, an indigenous nomad independence movement thought to be backed by both Algeria and Libya; last week the Front captured 14 Arab members of the colony's territorial police...
...peace talks, had also decided to reopen the canal next week to emphasize his desire for a settlement. Thus, Assad had to do something to demonstrate the same spirit. But it also showed that he was not limited to following Sadat's lead. In a far different manner, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi was showing the same sort of bristly independence. The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram angrily charged that during Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Libya two weeks ago, Gaddafi agreed to take $4 billion in Soviet arms in return for allowing the Russians to establish...