Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driving into Tripoli from the airport, you encounter some of the enormous changes that have taken place since Gaddafi seized power nearly four years ago. The domed Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus still dominates the center of the capital. But its doors are locked, and the star and crescent of Islam have replaced the cross atop the spires. Everywhere, curling, zigzagging Arabic letters have supplanted the Latin alphabet. In front of the Souk al-Turk (Turkish bazaar), there is a statue of Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor (A.D. 146-211) who was born in Libya. A visitor would...
...owned by Continental Oil, Marathon Oil, Amerada, Hess and Royal Dutch/Shell; American Overseas Petroleum Ltd., owned by Texaco and Standard of California; and Occidental Petroleum. Negotiations between Oasis and the Libyans over the 50% demand had been proceeding fitfully for months until last week. Then Gaddafi called a Tripoli press conference and produced a couple of Israeli grapefruit that he said had been confiscated by Libyan workers at a pipeline terminal run by Oasis, the largest foreign producer. He accused Oasis of allowing Israeli spies to operate in Libya disguised as oil workers. Gaddafi gave the companies less than...
...based executives of the threatened companies maintained sphinxlike silence about the demand, but other oilmen in Tripoli believe that the firms did submit vaguely worded takeover proposals before the deadline. Nervous Americans, faced with the peculiar task of proposing terms for their own buyout, complained privately that they did not know exactly what Gaddafi meant by "100% control." At minimum, Gaddafi might settle for part ownership of their assets and the appointment of Libyan nationals as chief executives. At the extreme, he will push for complete nationalization...
...five-man crew were ordered to leave Irish waters quickly and never return. Though registered in Cyprus, the Claudia is owned by two Germans from Frankfurt. Her voyage to Ireland originated in Cyprus and included stops in the Mediterranean. There was evidence that the arms had been loaded at Tripoli. British intelligence alerted the Irish government to watch for the vessel. The trap staged by Irish forces indicated that new Irish Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave plans to be at least as tough on the Provos as was his predecessor, Jack Lynch...
...provide expertise, Gaddafi has had to turn to the foreigners he basically dislikes: Yugoslavs for a new port at Misurata; Italians for road building; Britons for a new airport at Tripoli; Egyptians to advise his ministries, run his courts and train his 22,000-man army; and, of course, Americans to pump oil. The Egyptians, who have always been arrogant and patronizing toward Libyans, are as unpopular as ever -and there are now 220,000 of them in the country. But nobody is as unpopular at the moment as the Americans. When a Libyan student asked Gaddafi this month...