Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Islamic Zeal. In Libya, other foreigners also sense increasing hostility. The twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council, of which Gaddafi is the leader, last June closed down the giant Wheelus U.S. Air Force Base near Tripoli and British bases at Tobruk and El Adem in eastern Libya. Police stop autos driven by foreigners and question them at length. Cyclists display an alarming proclivity for sweeping close to pedestrians in Western clothes. Many British and American oil company executives are now concerned enough to send their families home. Enrollment in the school for foreign children in Tripoli is expected to drop from...
Along with xenophobia has come a surge of Islamic asceticism. All foreign language signs are banned, including street names. Tripoli hotels have had to buy new towels and table napkins to replace the old ones, which had English or Italian on them. Pork has been banned; so has alcohol (except for embassies and oil workers deep in the desert). A bootleg bottle of Scotch brings $20 and the risk of arrest...
Nasser's Friend. While Gaddafi has been discriminating against foreigners at home, he has been promoting pan-Arabism abroad. As an ardent supporter of Nasser, he has pushed himself into the inner councils of the Arab leaders. Two Arab high-level meetings have been held in Tripoli over the past three months. Gaddafi has publicly denounced...
...Arabs had many more serious problems in their ranks. A meeting of the main Arab combatants in Tripoli was boycotted by Iraq and Algeria and criticized by Arab commandos. Nasser, clearly stung by recent demonstrations against him in Baghdad, took an angry swipe at Iraqi military performance, asking sarcastically: "Why has the enemy not been attacking your forces?" In Amman, pro-Nasser and anti-Nasser guerrillas clashed twice, killing at least two of their number and taking rival prisoners. As the splits in Arab unity grew deeper each day, Beirut Columnist Adel Malek declared: "What is really needed...
...Tanks in Tripoli. Diplomats view last week's developments as merely the first halting steps on a long, rock-strewn road. The Soviet Union lost no time in confirming that opinion by launching a new military-assistance program in Libya, Nasser's next-door neighbor. Intelligence sources reported last week that Russian freighters have recently docked at Tripoli to unload Soviet tanks and armored cars that have been sold to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's army. The Soviets tried to make light of the move. "If you are going to 'expel' us from Egypt, we must...