Word: tripolis
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...right to expect that these three outstanding Americans should have been mindful that George Washington wrote, "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion" (Article XI, Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the U.S.A. and Tripoli, June...
Yazid's mild jest did not obscure the real importance of the occasion. In a single night he had driven 500 miles to Tunis from the Libyan capital of Tripoli, where the Algerian National Revolutionary Council had been in session, to tell waiting newsmen of the cease-fire agreement with France. By an overwhelming vote, the council empowered Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda to conclude the agreement as he saw fit, without the need of obtaining further council approval...
...bloody, seven-year Algerian War, which has cost an estimated 400,000 lives, was nearly over. In a green-shuttered Parliament building in Libya's capital city of Tripoli, 54 members of the Algerian National Revolutionary Council met last week behind heavily guarded doors to vote on the cease-fire agreement with France that will lead to Algerian independence...
...three-week secret conference in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. 80 members of the F.L.N.'s National Council tossed out Abbas and installed a new team headed by Premier Youssef Ben Khedda. 41. who is convinced that the West is so committed to "colonialism and imperialism'' that the F.L.N. "must look elsewhere for salvation...
Growled Major General R. B. Luckey. commanding officer at Camp Lejeune: "I don't know whether or not there were any marines at Tripoli. How the hell would I know? But I've believed it for 33 years, and I'm going to go right on believing...