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Three Arab nations boycotted Nasser's summit outright: Morocco, Algeria and Iraq. Morocco's King Hassan probably stayed away simply to avoid entanglement in a faraway fight. The other two did so out of sympathy with the guerrillas. Libya's youthful new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who has remained outwardly loyal to Nasser, attended the conference-but only after siding strongly with the Palestinians and offering to send Libyan troops into the fight on the commandos' side. Nothing ever came of that, but there is speculation that Gaddafi, who came to power last year...
...Sicilia sailed into the Bay of Naples, its decks were crammed with 677 distraught and dispirited Italians, many of whom had never seen Italy before. They were part of a wave of refugees from Libya, where the military regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is celebrating its first anniversary in power by expelling the last 6,000 members of an Italian community that numbered 25,000 only a year...
Along with his other troubles, Nasser may also lose money because of his decision to negotiate. Libya was two days late with a $12 million subsidy to Egypt this month; since Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is undecided about negotiation, the delay might have been a pointed notice to Nasser to negotiate with care, if at all. Egypt can ill afford such a slight. King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott learned in Cairo last week, has apparently withheld $25 million due Egypt for war support because the King is angry that Arab disunity is keeping...
...Union lost no time in confirming that opinion by launching a new military-assistance program in Libya, Nasser's next-door neighbor. Intelligence sources reported last week that Russian freighters have recently docked at Tripoli to unload Soviet tanks and armored cars that have been sold to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's army. The Soviets tried to make light of the move. "If you are going to 'expel' us from Egypt, we must go elsewhere," grinned a Russian diplomat in Washington, referring to a remark by Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger that Kissinger himself has since termed unfortunate...
Nasser and leaders from six other Arab nations had just concluded a three-day summit in Tripoli that had served as a great pep rally for new efforts against Israel. They discussed the lack of action on the eastern (Syria-Jordan) front, and Libya's new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, pointedly criticized "the absence from the battle of some Arab forces." Even as the Arab leaders conferred, the Syrian army, as if stung by the criticism, started strong attacks against Israel. Massed artillery began the offensive with bombardment of Israeli positions. Under the cover of the barrage, Syrian tanks...