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Though Amri insisted he was in Lebanon for "rest and medical treatment," President Iryani, whose own powers are greatly strengthened by the general's removal, promptly announced Amri's resignation as Premier and commander in chief. In the past, the wily strongman's usual tactic when opposed on one issue or another was to resign, repair to Beirut or Cairo for a few weeks, and await recall on his own terms. This time it looks doubtful that Amri will ever be invited back...
...Palestinian guerrillas who long operated freely within his country's borders. Only last month, in a continuing display of disunity, Syria and Iraq closed their borders with Jordan in protest against Hussein's routing of the guerrillas; two weeks ago, Libya's impetuous young strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, urged the Jordanian army to overthrow its King...
...within two years the U.S. would win the war. USING MUSCLE ON KY. After Diem's overthrow, the U.S. was frustrated by governmental instability and continued political factionalism in Saigon. The breaking point came in May 1966 when Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, then the country's military strongman, provoked another Buddhist outburst by saying that he would remain in office another year, postponing the scheduled elections. After dissident South Vietnamese soldiers and Buddhists seized control of Danang and Hue, Ky moved in troops of his own without consulting the U.S. Reacting with what the Pentagon analysts called "unrestrained...
Still, strong doubts are beginning to disturb the cognoscenti, who worry that Sadat will become a Nasser-like strongman. It is an unexpected role. Before Sadat assumed the top office, his chief accomplishment was surviving for 18 years in Nasser's coterie, though he was banished to his native Delta village for five weeks only last summer for using government powers to take over a luxurious villa that his wife coveted. Cairo skeptics suggest that his accession to power merely portends a different sort of police state. "Up till now, the leftist-controlled intelligence tapped the telephones...
Libyan Gain. The amalgamation is an obvious gain in stature for Libya's flamboyant Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The proposed union may also help Syrian Strongman Hafez Assad, who now may be able as a partner to collect some of the $24 million in Libyan oil revenues that Gaddafi grandly promised Syria last fall. There appears, however, to be little advantage in confederation for Egypt, which has been trying to relax its pan-Arabism somewhat in order to concentrate on progress at home. Egypt will receive little military assistance from Libya. Of 110 French Mirages being sold to Gaddafi, only...