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...stretches inside the northern and eastern borders, where at least 2,000 Palestinian troops crossed into Lebanon from bases in Syria. The Syrian government insisted that it would not send its army into Lebanon, but its sympathies, like those of Libya, were clearly with the fedayeen. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi urged the guerrillas to seize the Beirut airport so that he could send them Libyan fighter planes. Syria closed its border to Lebanon; with the Beirut airport also shut down and 40 ships unable to unload cargo, Lebanon was virtually isolated...
...When Muammar Gaddafi appears in public with older Arab leaders, it is he who draws the cheers. The most belligerent of the Arab leaders, Gaddafi is spending $200 million on a largely unnecessary air force of 114 French Mirage fighter-bombers, which inevitably stands as a threat to Israel, the frustrating obsession of the Arab world. Last week two of these planes inexplicably fired on an unarmed U.S. military-reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Mediterranean, provoking the sharpest exchange between Washington and Tripoli since Gaddafi came to power. In other spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least...
...loyal to King Idris. As the evening drew to a close, the young officers simply arrested their guests. The 80-year-old King was out of the country as usual, and the crown prince slept through two raids on the palace. By 7 a.m., the rebels held Tripoli, and Muammar Gaddafi was Libya's new head of state and commander in chief...
...Egypt and Syria to join in a "Federation of Arab Republics" with Libya. Later this year he is set to join Libya with Egypt in a full-scale political merger. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, whom Gaddafi detests, will be the President, and Cairo will be the capital. But Muammar Gaddafi will be the bankroller, the resident fury and the heir apparent...
...Muammar Gaddafi, the only hope lies in Arab unity, and he has gained an influential ally in Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, Nasser's old friend and policymaker and the editor of the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Heikal, who is somewhat estranged from Sadat but sees Gaddafi as a new force in Arab politics, takes considerable hope in the forthcoming Egyptian-Libyan federation. He believes that the new alliance will be strong enough to exert pressure, via the conservative Arab states and the U.S., to make Israel withdraw from the occupied territories...