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...behalf of the revolution, committee members have grabbed citizens who are suspected of being Israeli agents, Communists or members of the outlawed right-wing Moslem Brotherhood, hauled them to the police and ordered them arrested. The police must obey, even without evidence of wrongdoing. So far, at least 150 people have been interned as a result of these citizens' arrests...
Saddiqa explained, "We feel that our first duty is to cleanse the university. So far, we have fired three professors of education, men who stood in the way of progress and revolution. Two of these teachers belonged to the Moslem Brotherhood, while the third we suspected of being an American agent. We have also set up a committee of professors to examine all books here and decide which ones to remove from the library. Most of the ones removed so far deal with Marxism...
...Egypt and Libya will be asked to ratify a new constitution merging the two nations-a project conceived by Gaddafi and essential to his dreams of leadership. The linking is a calculated risk for him. Unless his notoriously dour and apathetic people can be mobilized and motivated, contends a Moslem writer who is a longtime Gaddafi watcher, "Egyptian bureaucrats will move in like a plague of locusts and overwhelm Libya. That is why he launched the People's Revolution. It is essentially a defensive operation aimed at helping Libyans hold their own with Egyptians after the union...
...fighting increased, Premier Amin Hafez gave in to Franjieh's demands and declared a state of emergency, effectively giving the mostly Christian army control over the country. The next day, as Lebanese jet fighter-bombers joined the fray for the second week in a row, Hafez resigned. A Moslem, he had been in office only 13 days and had replaced Saeb Salam, another Moslem, who resigned after last month's Israeli attacks...
Hafez's resignation had little impact. Tough, short-fused Franjieh had clearly been in full control from the start. One of his major worries was the pro-fedayeen activity of Lebanon's Opposition Leader Kamal Jumblatt and other left-wing or Moslem politicians. Jumblatt called a secret meeting to organize political agitation in support of the guerrillas. Later, a member of Parliament from Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party was caught trying to smuggle arms into Beirut from the Syrian border. His car contained 35 submachine guns, five bundles of dynamite and seven bazookas. There were other signs...