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...what appeared to be a conciliatory gesture, Gaddafi announced before the scheduled meeting that Polisario representatives had "voluntarily and temporar ily" withdrawn both from the rescheduled summit and from a preliminary gathering in Tripoli of African foreign ministers. In response, 44 national delegations turned up for the initial gathering. Then the posturing began. In a welcoming speech, Gaddafi exposed his territorial ambitions in northern Africa by proposing to abandon one of the O.A.U.'s most sacred principles: the inviolability of the national borders inherited from Africa's former colonial powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failed Summit | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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