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...plans to expand its petrochemical industry and treble auto ownership (to 9 million cars) by 1980. Soon the Soviets will have to restrict oil sales and greatly increase the preferential prices that they charge to their Comecon partners. Last year Poland reportedly had to buy a large amount of Libyan crude, at $16 to $20 per bbl. Strapped for hard currency to pay for oil from non-Communist sources, East Germany had to restrict the expansion of its plastics and textiles industries...
...special ceremony at George Wald's bedside, Leonard Bernstein '39 awards him the Nobel Peace Prize. Bernstein also awards himself the first Nobel Prize for Music. "It's about time," Bernstein remarks. Bok squelches merger rumors by selling Radcliffe to Libya. Libyan premier Col. Muammar Qadaffi closes the school down. "As the leader of progressive Third World anti-imperialist forces everywhere," Qadaffi announces, "I do not believe in education for women. Back to the bedroom." F. Skiddy von Stade comments...
...Leila Takla, 38, who holds a doctorate in public administration and is one of eight women members in Egypt's 360-seat Parliament. An active feminist, she held her own in a remarkable debate last year with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had come to Cairo to explore the possibilities of a merger between Egypt and Libya. Takla, who is married to Police General and Criminologist Karim Darwish, rebutted Gaddafi's chauvinistic brand of Islamic fundamentalism by arguing that it reduced women to a secondary role. When Gaddafi protested that women were weak, Takla retorted that "only...
...twelve similar votes on Israeli conduct since the Six-Day War. the U.S. has cast two vetoes and abstained five times; it has voted yes five times, mainly on U.N. measures disapproving such serious Israeli excursions as the shooting down of a Libyan airliner and the government-endorsed skyjacking of a Lebanese commercial plane last year...
...back to Tripoli. Then Egyptian officials claimed that under questioning, Sareya admitted that last summer he had a long discussion with Gaddafi in Libya. These revelations triggered a Cairo press campaign against Gaddafi and led Ali Amin, editor of Cairo's influential newspaper Al Ahram, to call the Libyan ruler a "village idiot...