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Only hours earlier, Khartoum (pop. 1.4 million) had been a ghost town. Doctors, lawyers, engineers were on strike. The airport and most stores were closed. President Gaafar Nimeiri, the wily strongman who had weathered a succession of coup attempts during an almost 16-year reign, was outside the country. Now, with Nimeiri stranded in Egypt on his way back from a visit to Washington, the people exulted at his overthrow by Suwar al Dahab and the Sudanese military. Some brandished the old yellow, green and blue-striped flag that had been replaced the year Nimeiri came to power; others ripped...
...about $260 million this year, more than any other African country except Egypt. At the same time, however, Suwar al Dahab promised to try to improve relations with two meddlesome neighbors, Libya and Ethiopia. As if hoping to enlist the new regime in his own cause, Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, made a point of being the first leader to recognize Sudan's junta. "Reagan has nothing to do with Sudan," the Libyan said. "If he interferes, his nose will...
Over the past four months he had signed a treaty of friendship with Morocco and sought to improve relations with West Germany and France. But Libya's mercurial strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, has disappointed Western leaders who may have hoped that he had turned his hand from duplicity to diplomacy. Last week repercussions of his latest antics resounded around the world...
With the miners slowly drifting back to work, Scargill is going to need lots of help wherever he can find it. A month ago he turned to Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi for aid - although, apparently, none has yet been received - and he now appears to be seeking continued Soviet support. The Kremlin is not without sympathy for the miners' leader: last year, while visiting Moscow, Scargill noted that the threat to world peace came from that "most dangerous duo, President Ray-Gun and the plutonium blond, Margaret Thatcher." He also attacked the outlawed Polish trade union Solidarity...
Less than 24 hours later, French President François Mitterrand took off for the Greek island of Crete, and a surprise summit meeting with Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Back in Paris, Mitterrand was forced to admit that, no, the Libyans had not completed their pull-out and that approximately two battalions still remained. There seemed little doubt, as the Paris daily Le Monde put it, that the U.S. statement had "profoundly embarrassed the The French bid adieu to Libyans French authorities...