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Until recently, little of Libya's vast wealth trickled down to the nation's 1.8 million people, 35% of whom are illiterate Bedouins. Gaddafi, a Bedouin who grew up in a desert tent, has now decided to help them by turning Libya into an instant industrial state. So far, he has decreed that 40 new industries must be launched, ranging from clothing and pharmaceuticals to steel tubing and petrochemicals. To the delight of European suppliers, Libya has ordered $180 million worth of cement, shoe and glass factories from West Germany, a $50 million power plant from France...
...gawking was good. Among the women in the crowd of 60,000, the braless look and tight pants predominated. The very beautiful and the very rich wandered in and out of the blue-and-white-striped "Members Only" tent. At $8 a head, families took seven-minute swoops over the track in helicopters. Others tooled up and down the old, cracked fighter-bomber runways of the airport in open M.G.s, yellow Jags and dune buggies...
...private eye to find him. The detective (who, incidentally, is handicapped by having artificial hands) gets a helicopter and cruises along the Gulf of California, looking for a blue Volkswagen truck in which Christian is supposed to be riding. Eventually the detective spots the truck parked at a tent camp in a remote area of Baja California. He lands at a nearby town, organizes a detachment of Mexican police and raids the camp. Christian, who is hiding behind a pile of clothes, tries to make a run for it. In a sleeping bag is a naked 21-year-old girl...
...country's population, they have never had much clout in Australian politics. Last December, however, militant young "Abos," calling themselves "black Australians," staged a violent demonstration in Brisbane. For the past month, to dramatize their case for land rights, they have been operating an eleven-tent "Abo Embassy" across from Parliament House in Canberra. "We are tired of hanging around the white man's door waiting for crumbs," cried Abo Journalist John Newfong. The Abos' next target: Interior Minister Ralph Hunt, whom they hope to defeat in elections late this year...
Last week antibusing citizen groups organized a motorcade to Washington, 117 miles distant. "They've seen the hippies and the peaceniks and the tent cities," said William Hanner, president of the Henrico County P.T.A. "Now let's show them what a good clean American middle-class type of people can do in the way of a demonstration...