Word: misurata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provide expertise, Gaddafi has had to turn to the foreigners he basically dislikes: Yugoslavs for a new port at Misurata; Italians for road building; Britons for a new airport at Tripoli; Egyptians to advise his ministries, run his courts and train his 22,000-man army; and, of course, Americans to pump oil. The Egyptians, who have always been arrogant and patronizing toward Libyans, are as unpopular as ever -and there are now 220,000 of them in the country. But nobody is as unpopular at the moment as the Americans. When a Libyan student asked Gaddafi this month...