Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Libya fell to Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who as head of the Beirut bureau from 1964-1968 and again in 1969-1970 had already visited the country several times. On this trip, despite the abrupt and unexplained cancellation of his visa, he was able to spend time in Tripoli and Benghazi before flying to Beirut with a fresh impression of Gaddafi's domain. "It's never been easy covering the Arab Middle East," Griggs says. "But by and large the Arabs are a friendly and charming people who don't blame you personally for U.S. backing...
...Arab nations and the moral support of many. Even after Black Septembrists killed eleven Israelis at the Munich Olympics last summer, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Libya continued to bankroll the movement. Indeed, the murderers of Munich were hailed as heroes in rabidly anti-Israel Arab capitals like Tripoli. But nobody seemed eager last week to honor the killers of Khartoum...
Suspending all Palestinian activities in Sudan, Numeiry angrily asserted that Black September was indeed part of Al-Fatah. As proof, he charged the head of the Al-Fatah office in Khartoum with having masterminded the massacre. He said that the leader, Fawwaz Yassin, had left Khartoum for Tripoli on a Libyan airliner only hours before the attack on the Saudi embassy was launched. Detailed plans for the entire operation, in Yassin's handwriting, were later found in his desk. Sample: "Tareq -Issue instructions strictly and violently to all those inside the hall in a strong voice...Khaled-Control...
...Voice of Palestine, an Al-Fatah program on Sudanese radio. The other six guerrillas, carrying Jordanian passports, arrived in Khartoum on an Egyptian flight the day before the attack. Numeiry did not link the Egyptian government to the plot, but he implied that Libya, which had invited Yassin to Tripoli, might be connected...
...troops on the island had been refused by Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. The fiery Mintoff, in rebuffing the routine payment from the Bank of England, 1) demanded higher rent from Britain; 2) intimated that he would evict the troops unless he received it; 3) flew to Tripoli seeking support from Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi; and 4) tried to con other NATO nations that share in the rent payments into putting more pressure on London. What made the whole thing so familiar was that Mintoff had followed essentially the same script a year ago in a comic-opera confrontation that...