Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French Mirage fighter-bombers, which inevitably stands as a threat to Israel, the frustrating obsession of the Arab world. Last week two of these planes inexplicably fired on an unarmed U.S. military-reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Mediterranean, provoking the sharpest exchange between Washington and Tripoli since Gaddafi came to power. In other spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused Gaddafi of instigating the kidnap-murder...
...were loyal to King Idris. As the evening drew to a close, the young officers simply arrested their guests. The 80-year-old King was out of the country as usual, and the crown prince slept through two raids on the palace. By 7 a.m., the rebels held Tripoli, and Muammar Gaddafi was Libya's new head of state and commander in chief...
...former nurse whom he met two years ago while he was recovering from an automobile accident. She has presented him with a son, whom he named Seif al-Islam (sword of Islam), and is expecting a second child. Gaddafi's father lives in a shack in one of Tripoli's slums, and Gaddafi has vowed that "he will be the last to have a house," meaning that everyone else must be properly housed before his own family. Gaddafi expects his colleagues-whom he addresses as "Brother"-to live in a similar fashion. When Prime Minister Abdul Salam Jalloud...
Test. In the manner of Harun al-Rashid, the Arab caliph who ruled Baghdad in the 8th century, Gaddafi sometimes disguises himself in Bedouin robes and roams the city at night to see if his people are behaving properly. One time he appeared at Tripoli's Central Hospital and, to test the institution's efficiency, pretended that his father desperately needed a doctor. When a Taiwanese medic blithely suggested that a few aspirin would suffice, Gaddafi stripped off his robe and denounced the doctor: "You will regret that decision all your life." The doctor was fired...
...fanaticism, Gaddafi is doing the best he can to bring development to his poverty-ridden country. After a visit to Libya last week, his fourth in seven years, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs reported: "I've never seen Tripoli port as crammed as it is today. Modest but modern housing is going up everywhere. Yet, on the 20-minute drive into town from the airport, the brand-new divided highway goes by acre after acre of makeshift shacks perched precariously on the windswept desert. But the new stress is on agriculture. Gaddafi the Bedouin, brought up to revere trees...