Word: tripolis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expedient alliances, now breaking away to fight again. In recent years a fourth clan, the Dweihis. has risen from plebeian obscurity to join the fray. The newcomers entered the ring with considerable credentials. "About 70% of the criminal cases arising in the Zghorta district," said a court officer in Tripoli, some five miles away, "involve members of the Dweihi clan...
From the time of Mohammed the Prophet, Arabs have had a single, possessive name for the littoral lands that stretch along the African shore of the Mediterranean from Tripoli to Casablanca -"Djezira-el-Maghreb," or "Island of the West." In Cairo last week, where Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser keeps a small shoal of exiles from French North Africa (some fleeing trouble, some fomenting it), Egypt's ambitious Arab nationalists were worried by reports of a plan designed to take Maghreb out from under their noses...
...Libyan government declared its wholehearted support of Egypt, and required British forces to remain at their bases, Colonel Sadek proclaimed that it was the "servant of imperialism." In the first few days after the assault, his "Front" managed to blow up one section of the pipeline carrying oil from Tripoli's port to Wheelus Field, had bombs thrown at Barclays Bank and a small Jewish store. The Prime Minister himself protested to the Egyptian embassy. The colonel responded by smuggling 28 cases of automatic arms into the embassy, and (said a Libyan government communique later) "incited some persons...
This was too much. The Libyan government asked him to leave. The irrepressible colonel refused to. When Libyan police surrounded the Egyptian embassy, the colonel took up position on the roof with a machine gun, while leaflets poured out into the streets of Tripoli exhorting the citizens to protest. For three days the siege went on, with the colonel appearing at intervals on the roof to flourish his machine gun and peer hopefully down the street for rioting demonstrators to answer his call. None came, and Colonel Sadek disconsolately agreed to depart...
Equal Pay. The outburst came over the twin pipelines that the British-managed (and British-French-Dutch-U.S.-owned) I.P.C. operates between its Iraq fields and Lebanon's Mediterranean port of Tripoli. The Lebanese in 1944 gave renewed approval to an old agreement to 1) let I.P.C. run its pipes through their country, 2) exempt the company from taxation, 3) submit all disputes to arbitration. In 1947, I.P.C. began paying transit fees to Syria and Lebanon, through which its pipelines ran. Though the lines traversed Syria for 263 miles, Lebanon for only 20, I.P.C. paid each the same...