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Billy Carter, Libyan agent, embarrasses Brother Jimmy-again...
...lies in the Middle East. But with national coffers overflowing with oil revenues, OPEC countries are not making serious efforts to uncover more of it. U.S. and European oil companies are exploring Egypt's western desert, on the assumption that the oil does not stop at the Libyan border, as well as in the Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. Drilling is also continuing in Europe's North Sea, around Norway and Britain. West of the Shetland Islands, off Scotland, the state-owned British National Oil Corp. is test drilling in 4,500 ft. of water, the second...
...Sadat announced that he was ready to go to Riyadh to talk with the Saudi leaders, but the Saudis quickly rebuffed him and brought an abrupt end to his proffered friendship. In a stinging speech the next night, Sadat reverted to form and assailed the Saudis as well as Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad. Shouted Sadat to a meeting of provincial officials: "I will never surrender Egypt's will to make her own decisions to the lunatic Gaddafi, the bloodthirsty Hussein, the traitor Assad or to the Saudis...
...OPEC ministers departed from last week's meeting, they left no doubt that they will start raising prices again just as soon as world petroleum demand permits. The group will meet in September and could then return to its old ways. Said Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam Zagaar: "The ceiling is going to be $37 until September, and then we will see what the market will...
Shadowy, mysterious, masked when they attack to hide any possibility of identification, trained both to rescue and to kill, S.A.S. members have thrived on the unit's mystique ever since it was founded in the Libyan desert in 1942. The goal then was to penetrate and operate behind enemy lines in North Africa. Moving swiftly and with seemingly phantom-like invisibility, the S.A.S. destroyed hundreds of Nazi planes on their own airstrips, freed countless Allied prisoners and blew up scores of Axis ammunition dumps. The commandos were also sent on missions to assassinate leading Axis generals...