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Alert the Army! Berserk with anger, Big Daddy declared that Hills would be shot on July 4, unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan visits Uganda in the meantime. Trembling, Amin shouted to his defense council, "Alert the army! Alert the air force! Call Libya [an ally whose leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is a fellow Moslem and fellow eccentric] and tell her to start sending airplanes here!" Later, complaining that Blair had been "undiplomatic, hot-tempered and totally drunk" during the talks, Amin charged that the envoy had threatened to order "British troops from Kenya" to invade Uganda, and that Britain...
...formal treaty or a politically unpalatable pledge of nonbelligerency until there was also agreement on the Syrian front and on the Palestinian issue. Some kind of understanding would protect moderates like Sadat from attacks by radical Arabs, notably the hard-lining Palestinians. In Tripoli last week, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is feuding with Sadat, met with George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Ahmed Jabril of the P.F.L.P.-General Command, both of whom are far to the left of Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. With Gaddafi, Habash and Jabril they denounced Sadat...
...also decided to reopen the canal next week to emphasize his desire for a settlement. Thus, Assad had to do something to demonstrate the same spirit. But it also showed that he was not limited to following Sadat's lead. In a far different manner, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi was showing the same sort of bristly independence. The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram angrily charged that during Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Libya two weeks ago, Gaddafi agreed to take $4 billion in Soviet arms in return for allowing the Russians to establish military facilities...
...political support from the Saudi King, called Faisal "a tireless fighter for the Arab cause." Tunisia's aging President Habib Bourguiba, who described Faisal as a friend of 30 years and "a force for stability and moderation," broke off a meeting with Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to head for Riyadh and join a procession of foreign leaders flying in for Faisal's funeral...
Indeed, today's favored arms customer may become tomorrow's Frankenstein monster. Governments can change abruptly; a coup in Iran or Saudi Arabia might bring to power a regime as radical as that of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The new leader would inherit a cache of the latest military hardware, which he would almost surely use against the interest of the Western states that originally provided it. Just as odd is the U.S.'s massive arming of Persian Gulf states, at the very moment when it is hinting that military intervention might be necessary if the West faced economic...