Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quid Pro Quo. At week's end nothing was certain. Though Arab leaders agreed that a meeting of oil ministers should be held to discuss lifting the embargo, they seemed in conflict on whether it should be in Cairo on Sunday or Tripoli on Wednesday. It is unlikely, though, that Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a blunt critic of the U.S., would permit a meeting in Tripoli that was likely to lead to an elimination of the oil cutoff. Algeria, Kuwait and Syria were also opposed to ending the boycott. Some of the other Arab states would probably agree...
...describe Gaddafi as the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin sources of evil, godless Communism and American materialism. The Moslem leader, in return, has commended the C.O.G. on Libyan radio and has invited a son and daughter of Berg to visit him in Tripoli...
...minimum income for all families. Nixon's only surprise was his statement that Middle East oil ministers plan to meet soon to consider lifting the embargo against exports to the U.S. Other U.S. officials confirmed that he referred to a previously announced Feb. 14 meeting in Tripoli (see ENERGY...
Unreconstructed forces are already at work in the Middle East to slow the progress toward peace talks. Iraq's government-controlled press last week characterized Cairo's agreement as leading to "complete surrender to Zionism." The Tripoli newspaper New Dawn, in an editorial reportedly written by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, called the recent negotiations a "theatrical play" produced by Washington and Moscow...
...nation having a single constitution, flag, capital (Tunis), army and legislative, judicial and executive system, with Bourguiba as its President and Gaddafi as a Vice President. On the day of the announcement, Bourguiba hailed the development as "an event that will change the course of history." Tunis and Tripoli radios began identifying themselves as the radio of the "Arab Islamic Republic," as the new nation was to be known...