Word: libyans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earnings at Standard Oil of New Jersey advanced only 1.6%; profits rose 6% or more at Gulf, Mobil, and Standard Oil of Ohio but fell at Texaco, Phillips and Atlantic-Richfield. Occidental Petroleum recorded an 84% earnings increase, reflecting the rich flow of low-cost crude oil from its Libyan strikes...
...hypnotize the police en masse, or, alternatively, offered to solve Rome's horrendous traffic problems. So far, neither suggestion has budged the government. The protest leader was the Magician of Tobruk, who takes his name from a childhood prediction of his father's wartime death in the Libyan city. Said he: "All we want is recognition, then we'll show what we can do. If they want spells, we'll show them...
...leader of England's World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...
...with Israel. Al Ahram, Nasser's favorite newspaper, charged that the CIA goaded Israel to attack, and that just before the war the Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload them...
...Marines in the Libyan consulate fought off rioters with pickax handles, then retreated to the security vault until British soldiers could rescue them...