Word: shahati
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Libyans, with uncharacteristic caution, described the creation of a union as a long and complex process. As one top government official, Ahmed Shahati, explained to TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini: "We now have more experience in these affairs, and we shall proceed step by step. After all, we both practice socialism, we both struggle to create Arab unity, and we share a common aim to liberate Palestine...
...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
...only we could get someone close to the White House," Shahati told Papa. "My American friends in the oil business tell me that this Billy Carter is approachable and likable." Papa was surprised that Leanza, being from Georgia, did not know Billy, but he persuaded Leanza to carry an engraved invitation to Billy from the Libyan government to visit that country at its expense...
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