Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beamed by satellite. Not since the heyday of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had any speech been so eagerly awaited. On the streets of Beirut and Cairo, people gathered round anyone carrying a transistor radio to listen in. In the refugee camps of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, a holiday was declared; schools were closed, and employees of the U.N. refugee agency took...
...high school students. Libya's Minister of Interior Major Khweidly el Hamidy rushed to Cairo to piously insist that his government had nothing to do with the coup, but Sadat did not believe him. The Egyptian President gave him a tongue lashing that sent him scurrying back to Tripoli. Then Egyptian officials claimed that under questioning, Sareya admitted that last summer he had a long discussion with Gaddafi in Libya. These revelations triggered a Cairo press campaign against Gaddafi and led Ali Amin, editor of Cairo's influential newspaper Al Ahram, to call the Libyan ruler a "village...
Five months almost to the day after the Arabs unsheathed their oil weapon they decided to put it back in the scabbard-at least for a while. As expected, oil ministers of nine Arab nations* conferring in Tripoli reached a basic agreement last week to lift the ban on oil sales to the U.S., though not the similar prohibitions on exports to The Netherlands, Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa. But they left the world waiting to hear just when and for how long they would permit oil to flow to the U.S. again; according to one report, they will decide...
...critic of the U.S. Those nations would not even attend a meeting two weeks ago in Cairo that was supposed to proclaim what most of the Arab governments already had privately decided: that the embargo should be lifted. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne insisted that the meeting be held in Tripoli as originally scheduled...
...meeting to take place, but he proved a less than gracious host. According to Egyptian newspapers, he showed his displeasure by sending in a huffy note declaring that, "I will not have Libya tarnished by having an announcement on lifting the oil embargo against the U.S. issued in Tripoli." Reportedly, the ministers nevertheless reached a compromise proposed by Algeria: the embargo will be lifted soon, but that decision will be reviewed in two months. If, in the Arab view, the U.S. has not kept up sufficient pressure on Israel to reach a settlement with Syria on troop pullbacks...