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Malta's Prime Minister Dom Mintoff was welcomed on a recent Peking visit as an anti-imperialist champion. The Albanian press meanwhile lambasted "Maltese ruling circles" for selling out to Britain by negotiating a new military base agreement. The two allies disagree on the European Common Market (Tirana is opposed) and on Chinese overtures toward the Communist parties of Italy and Spain (in Albanian eyes both are revisionist). So far, the Chinese lion has ignored the roars from its Adriatic mouse...
...Gaddafi is Pakistan's President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who recently renamed the stadium in Lahore Muammar Gaddafi Stadium in gratitude for Libyan assistance-reportedly including the loan of U.S.-built F-5 fighters-to Moslem Pakistan during the war with India last December. Socialist Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of predominantly Roman Catholic Malta is also in on Gaddafi's personal foreign aid program. Because Gaddafi saw Mintoff's battle with Britain over a new lease for military bases on Malta (see International Notes) as a struggle against imperialism, the Libyan leader last December volunteered $12 million...
Prime Minister Dom Mintoff was hailed as "Is-Salvatur ta' Malta' (Malta's savior) last week as he returned home to a celebration with waving flags, palm fronds and giant portraits of himself. Even Mintoff's enemies had to agree with his boast that he had won a "great victory." After nine months of will-he-or-won't-he negotiations with Britain, he had finally signed an agreement extending for another seven years Britain's right to use Malta as a naval base. Mintoff did not get the $72 million in annual rent...
...Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the U.S. will share with Britain the rental costs of the British base on Malta. Other NATO powers will not be able to use the island-unless, of course, they are prepared to part with additional baksheesh-but they at least won Mintoff's guarantee that Malta will not provide military facilities for members of the Warsaw Pact...
...victorious Mintoff, he tossed off a few angry words about British "settlers" (i.e., residents) on Malta, and then flew off to Peking. There he intended to discuss "diplomatic and economic matters," presumably meaning foreign...