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...bound by a formal treaty or a politically unpalatable pledge of nonbelligerency until there was also agreement on the Syrian front and on the Palestinian issue. Some kind of understanding would protect moderates like Sadat from attacks by radical Arabs, notably the hard-lining Palestinians. In Tripoli last week, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is feuding with Sadat, met with George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Ahmed Jabril of the P.F.L.P.-General Command, both of whom are far to the left of Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. With Gaddafi, Habash and Jabril...
...Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...
...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 military facilities and technicians on Libyan soil. Libya speedily denied such reports, but diplomats in Cairo were not impressed. Even if the dimensions of Soviet aid were not yet clear, Egyptian observers said, the fact remained that the Russians had moved into Libya on a major scale and from there will be in a strong position, through...
...were barred from participating in a $20 million bond issue for Marubeni, a Japanese trading company. In a startling admission, officials of the lead bank in the deal, London's Kleinwort, Benson, Ltd., admitted that they had acceded to pressure from two other participants in the underwriting, the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank and the Kuwait Foreign Trading, Contracting and Investment Co. If Kleinwort had not given in, said its chief, Sir Cyril Kleinwort, the Arabs would have invested their money elsewhere. But other London bankers noted skeptically that Kleinwort, Benson was all too happy to exclude its competitors, Rothschild...
...industrial complex massed in front of the Interior Ministry demanding a rollback of food prices, which have soared an estimated 20% in the past year. Although police disbanded the mob with clubs and tear gas, protesters roamed through the center of the capital, stoning buses and smashing windows at Libyan Arab Airlines and Air France...