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They are getting it back with interest, as the passengers of the Sicilia testified. For two weeks before their departure, they had been forced to stand in long queues at government offices, where they had to submit detailed inventories of their entire holdings. After Libyan authorities were convinced that the lists were accurate, they confiscated all the properties without so much as a single Libyan pound in compensation. Then the Italians were given exit visas and allowed to take with them only the personal belongings they could pack into suitcases and trunks...
...maintain Libya's assertive independence. Though he has bought more than 100 tanks from Russia, he has refused a Soviet request to establish a naval base at Tobruk that would serve Russia's Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...
...Israelis' objectives was to weaken Nasser, the raid seemed to be having the opposite effect -at least for the time being. "Nasser! Nasser!" screamed the crowds as Egypt's President drove to prayers at Al Azhar mosque with visiting Sudanese Premier Jaafar Nemery and Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Two newspapers in the Egyptian capital, noting that U.S. Phantom jets had been used to carry out the Abu Zabal raid, called it "an American-Israeli crime in which Nixon is an accomplice...
...Libyan Wealth. The Israelis make no secret of their desire to get rid of Nasser. As long as he is President of Egypt, Israel's Premier Golda Meir said in Jerusalem, "I cannot say when there will be peace." A high-ranking Cabinet minister added: "Nasser has imprisoned himself in a position where he cannot make peace and he cannot make war. He can only maintain the status quo, and the status quo will only lead eventually to war. He must be weakened, but it would be better if he went altogether...
...rising. Vigorously seeking to open new Middle East markets, France is actively wooing Libya. The British are equally eager for Arab markets. Last month they quickly acceded to Colonel Gaddafi's demand that they abandon their bases in Libya, hoping that one result would be to persuade the Libyan army to buy British Chieftain tanks. Even the U.S. seems to be improving its image a bit, possibly because most of the Arab leaders are gradually beginning to admit that Washington's policy is no longer wholly pro-Israel. Since the Rabat summit, in fact, there has been...