Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...command of his people. That assessment may no longer be altogether true. While his diplomats in London were creating havoc before their expulsion from Britain late last month, reports were circulating in Libya that Gaddafi's troubles were mounting at home. According to Western residents and Libyans in Tripoli, he is less popular today with his 3.2 million countrymen than at any time since he seized power in 1969 from the aging and ineffectual King Idris. Despite the country's tightly controlled press, a highly efficient rumor machine keeps Libyans fairly well informed about the latest groundswells...
Somewhere over the western Mediterranean or southern France last Friday evening, a British Caledonian Airways jetliner heading northwest toward London crossed paths with a Libyan airliner flying southeast toward Tripoli. The planes were carrying home the second and final contingents of British and Libyan diplomats, thereby ending an eleven-day war of nerves between the two countries. It had begun a week earlier when an unidentified man fired shots through the windows of the Libyan embassy in London, killing a British policewoman and wounding eleven Libyan dissidents gathered outside in St. James's Square...
...security plan, which is being worked out with the aid of Syrian and Saudi Arabian envoys, calls for the Lebanese Army to move south from Beirut to the Awali River, where the Israeli occupation zone begins, and north toward the port city of Tripoli, which the Syrians dominate. Lebanese police forces would patrol the hills above Beirut, the Chouf Mountains and the volatile southern suburbs. By moving equally into both Muslim and Christian strongholds, the government hopes to silence the guns of the warring militias...
...asserted Mitterrand, "they depend on us to save human lives. Once the mission is complete, our soldiers will come back here." That unequivocal affirmation apparently created more tension than it defused. On the following day, a bomb shattered the French Cultural Center in the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli...
...while the Arafat evacuation from Tripoli also seemed in doubt. Five Greek ships had been chartered to take the P.L.O. forces out, under the protection of French naval vessels, including the aircraft carrier Clemenceau. The plan nearly collapsed when the Israelis made it clear, with their repeated gunboat bombardments of Tripoli, that they did not intend to let Arafat slip away unscathed-and maybe not at all. High-ranking sources in Jerusalem told TIME that the Israeli government had actually authorized special military and intelligence units to infiltrate Tripoli under the cover of the naval gunfire and assassinate the P.L.O...