Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instant Power. Last December, when Nasser traveled to Khartoum and Tripoli to promote the three-way federation, he was met by frantic crowds screaming: "One people, one people, one people!" Until his death, Nasser met regularly with Sudanese Leader Jaafar Numeiry and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. At last week's meeting, Numeiry, Gaddafi and Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat, produced a communiqué pledging to seek eventual political federation. To this end, they set up a "Tripartite Political Command...
...federation plan has already had a noticeable impact on other Arab states. Algeria, loath to see a huge new power rise on its eastern border, will court Libya next month, when President Houari Boumedienne visits Tripoli...
...What ever happened to the American who, when faced with extortion threats from pirates of Tripoli, responded, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute...
...Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...
Endangered Oil. The price of xenophobic militance has been a crumbling economy. Chasing out the Italians meant losing most of the nation's skilled labor and business expertise. Tripoli's fashionable shopping area is half deserted because the Italian-owned shops have all been shuttered. Unemployment has risen to an estimated 20%. The regime's vacillation has held up housing projects; much of the urban population still lives in tin shacks. The regime is even tampering with the industry that provides 99% of the nation's earnings. It has ordered a cutback...