Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They have one gun for every ten men. United under the slogan "Vanquish or Die." the rebels have formed a political-military organization. The National Front of Liberation For Chad (FROLINAT). It's self-proclaimed spokesman is a 44-year-old surgeon, Dr. Aba Siddick, who is exiled in Tripoli, Libya...
Nasser and leaders from six other Arab nations had just concluded a three-day summit in Tripoli that had served as a great pep rally for new efforts against Israel. They discussed the lack of action on the eastern (Syria-Jordan) front, and Libya's new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, pointedly criticized "the absence from the battle of some Arab forces." Even as the Arab leaders conferred, the Syrian army, as if stung by the criticism, started strong attacks against Israel. Massed artillery began the offensive with bombardment of Israeli positions. Under the cover of the barrage, Syrian tanks...
...Tripoli Summit. Arafat, as elected leader of the guerrillas' central committee and head of a provisional Palestinian parliament in exile, sits as an equal with Hussein, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and other heads of government of the 14-nation Arab League. His guerrilla movement has received unstinting praise from socialist leaders like Nasser and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and ample funds from conservative rulers in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But the radical guerrillas are something else. They raise the specter of Arab fighting Arab rather than Israel. With the Jordanian events as a leading item...
Another item on the Tripoli agenda was peace, or at least ceasefire. Nasser, who was there, was recently interviewed for U.S. television by Harvard Law Professor Roger Fisher. In the interview, aired last week, the Egyptian President proposed terms for a ceasefire. If Israel would agree to withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war, he said, Egypt would agree to a six-month cease-fire to carry out the withdrawal. Israel would also have to restore "Palestinian rights"-complying with the U.N. November 1967 resolution on the Middle East-meaning presumably that it would repatriate or compensate a million...
Everywhere in the Middle East the mood was hostile. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the 27-year-old head of Libya's Revolutionary Command Council, celebrated the first six months of his military rule with a 31-hour press conference in Tripoli's old parliament building. In his first such appearance, Gaddafi was ill at ease, chauvinistic and snappish. When TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott asked under what conditions Libya might place the planes that it is purchasing from France at the service of Egypt, Gaddafi bristled. "The issue," he snapped, "is not the use by Egypt of these arms. Rather...