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Rarely has a marriage between nations been arranged so quickly. On Sept. 1, Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi sounded out Syrian President Hafez Assad on the question of merger. A week later, Assad flew off to Tripoli to discuss details; two days after that the deal was struck. According to a 13-point proclamation issued in Tripoli and Damascus, the two leaders had agreed to form a "political, economic, military and cultural union" that would become "the base for confronting the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland and the liberation of Palestine...
Civiletti readily admitted one error: telling reporters initially that he had "never talked about Billy's Libyan connection with the President." He said that he had thought the question referred to a "substantive discussion," not a "brief conversation." Said Civiletti: "I replied, 'No.' I was wrong in attempting to draw such a close, lawyer-like distinction...
...haystack, and you wouldn't even tell them which haystack?" In any event, Heymann's deputies required only six weeks to learn the information on their own. The President's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was even quicker. He had already warned Billy that his Libyan negotiations might embarrass his brother. Justice Department lawyers are now investigating whether Brzezinski violated federal espionage laws...
...another arena of Middle Eastern affairs, a curious courtship was taking place between Libya and Syria. On the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of his country's revolution, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi unexpectedly proposed an "immediate" merger with Syria. Equally unexpected was the almost instantaneous reply of Syrian President Hafez Assad: "We extend our arm to meet with yours in unity." Syria is at loggerheads with two of its Arab neighbors, Iraq and Jordan, and is desperately short of cash, so a union with Libya might conceivably work to its benefit. But such merger proposals, offered in the name...
Desperate for money, he turned to his new Libyan friends who, he said, "felt personally responsible" for his having lost his main source of income and wanted "to help me get back on my financial feet." The result was the oil negotiations on behalf of Charter. This could have involved up to 100,000 bbl. a day, for which Billy and his associates could have received as much as 55? per bbl. in commissions. To tide himself over until he would start receiving those fat fees, Billy asked Libya for a $500,000 loan...