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When France announced three years ago that it planned to sell 114 Mirage jet fighters to Libya, the French Premier of the moment, Jacques Cha-ban-Delmas, assured the Israelis that the planes would never be used against them. If the Libyans transferred a single Mirage to Egyptian control, he declared, "we shall put an embargo on the planes that have not yet been supplied." Those assurances have been regularly renewed...
...found your article on Libya's Colonel Gaddafi and the Arab world [April 2] intriguing. and at the same time rather frightening...
...March 27, a conference of Islamic foreign ministers in Benghazi, Libya, appealed to India for the immediate release of the prisoners...
...side. Though the U.S. traditionally supplies arms to the Philippines, it has not increased its aid because of the rebellion. As for the insurgents, there is some evidence that their weapons are smuggled in by speedboats from the Malaysian state of Sabah (see map page 37), and that faraway Libya stands ready to finance fellow Moslems. But there has been no overt intervention, so far, on their behalf...
From the faces of the people and the type of sheep they raised, Marinatos concludes that the action occurred on the coast of Libya. Either allies or colonies of the Minoans, the two friendly cities had apparently summoned naval help against a rival city. If Marinatos is correct, the frieze extends by at least a thousand years the known history of Libya; until now scholars have thought that the earliest reference to Libya was in the chronicles of Herodotus, written about 450 B.C. The frieze also strongly suggests that Thera prospered through trade and occasionally conquest. For these reasons, Marinatos...