Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five terrorists, prodding U.S. Consul Robert Stebbins and 14 other hostages with pistols, boarded a bus for the airport. There they waited a further 25 hours before exchanging the 15 men for four Japanese and Malaysian officials who went as substitute hostages on the flight to Tripoli. Upon arrival, the ten radicals surrendered peacefully...
Roadblocks and machine gun emplacements sprang up once again on the city's streets. Militants, their AK-47s at the ready, closed the main highway routes to Tripoli in the north and Damascus to the east. Shops shuttered quickly, and frightened Beirutis scuttled through rapidly emptying streets in last-minute efforts to stock up their larders. At the very last moment, the American University of Beirut canceled its commencement exercises, leaving capped-and-gowned students walking on an otherwise deserted campus...
...would not be bound by a formal treaty or a politically unpalatable pledge of nonbelligerency until there was also agreement on the Syrian front and on the Palestinian issue. Some kind of understanding would protect moderates like Sadat from attacks by radical Arabs, notably the hard-lining Palestinians. In Tripoli last week, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is feuding with Sadat, met with George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Ahmed Jabril of the P.F.L.P.-General Command, both of whom are far to the left of Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. With Gaddafi...
...Soviets for its Black Sea fleet can be seen on any map of the Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...
...Palestinians obviously feared immediate retaliation. Refugee camps in Lebanon, reported TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante, were cleared, children were dismissed from schools. The day after the raid, five Lebanese air force jet trainers flying over Tripoli met an unexpected hail of gunfire from Palestinian gunners in a refugee camp, who had mistaken them for Israeli Phantoms...