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...rumbled once more. In one battle, claimed Cairo, Egyptian troops knocked out 40 Libyan tanks and disabled 30 other vehicles at the cost of one truck and one wounded soldier. Next day bomb-laden Egyptian jets swept across Libya, inflicting heavy damage on an airbase at El Adem, near Tobruk...
Sadat got one positive foreign reaction last week, but it was less than entirely welcome. Rejoicing at the Soviet humiliation, Libya's staunchly anti-Communist Leader Muammar Gaddafi invited Sadat to Tobruk and Benghazi for three days of political conversation, and the Egyptian leader, after a few days of rest near Alexandria with his handsome wife Gehan, complied. Gaddafi's idea was that, with the Russians out of Egypt, the two Arab nations could finally consummate "a full and complete revolutionary merger" and presumably launch a jihad, or holy war, against Israel. Sadat wants neither another losing...
...karate spy, is a mournful reincarnation of the wandering Irishman, someone whose way of escaping from Egypt is to hitch a ride on a Land Rover with an Anglican clergyman who is setting off with beagle-like optimism to expand the parish in the Saharan sands around Tobruk...
...September 1969 was to take down the foreign-language street signs in his dreary seaside capital of Tripoli. Since then he has banished nightclubs, alcohol and the teaching of English, ousted 6,000 American servicemen from Wheelus airbase and forced the British to retire from their airbase at Tobruk...
...like Somalia and Tanzania have shown skill at playing Moscow against Washington or Peking to maximum advantage. Moreover, most countries still regard the Russians with deep suspicion. Much as Libya's military government has welcomed Soviet arms aid, it has refused to allow Soviet warships to call at Tobruk for repairs and resupply. Egypt still bans the Communist Party, for all its reliance on Moscow for military muscle...