Word: muammar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Libya, Horwitz finds a designer dictator dressed in a cape, tartan sweater and red wool hat. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is also given to mismatched profundities, like "Woman is a female and man is a male" and "Democracy means popular rule, not popular expression...
...establishing a mood of moderation at home while mending ties with fellow Arabs. Of 21 members in the Arab League, all 18 that broke diplomatic relations with Egypt then have since resumed them. Last week Mubarak further demonstrated his diplomatic skills by playing host first to Libya's mercurial Muammar Gaddafi, whom he has wooed diplomatically for two years, and then to the foreign ministers of six gulf states and Syria. Says Walid Kazziha, a political scientist at the American University in Cairo: "During the past 10 years Mubarak has wanted to reintroduce Egypt into the Arab world. I think...
...summits, tete-a-tetes, initiatives and trial balloons, all aimed at averting a war over Kuwait that otherwise looked imminent. The European Community met in Luxembourg. Jordan's King Hussein shuttled around Europe. A former aide to French President Francois Mitterrand tried his luck in Baghdad, and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi convened his own Arab confab. Most significant, after weeks of ; petty dickering over when to get together, the U.S. and Iraq finally agreed to a high-level meeting in Geneva this week, their first since the confrontation erupted...
...Libyan transport planes at N'Djamena's military airport. The planes had come to pick up about 400 Libyan prisoners released by Deby, some of whom had been jailed since 1982, and to unload "humanitarian supplies," including a Renault luxury sedan, apparently a gift to Deby from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Deby defended freeing the Libyans as a move to help maintain good relations with Chad's northern neighbor. However, the prisoner release, along with reports that Libya provided at least 40% of the equipment for Deby's army, stirred fears that Gaddafi is poised to use Chad...
...difference. Another major effect of the embargo has been to cut Iraq's ability to pay for its imports with oil revenues. Here, too, Saddam can find ways around the restrictions. For one thing, he confiscated some $1 billion in gold in the Kuwaiti treasury. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been offering him credit. In addition, Saddam runs a police state that can easily squelch discontent about plunging living standards. Adding up all the guesses and intangibles, Western intelligence officials estimate that Saddam can survive the embargo pretty well until some time in the middle of next year...