Word: tripolis
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...border, on the person of an eccentric Belgian diplomat, addressed to persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example and do the same." Agitators need not invent events to profit by them...
Beirut was slow to rise. But in the northern Moslem stronghold of Tripoli, crowds poured from a mosque to pillage, smash and burn every unshuttered shop. Goaded by agitators, the mob gutted the U.S. Information Agency library; some seized a model of the Vanguard satellite from a desk and kicked it about the street in a grotesque soccer game. In the city's chief square, troops fired. Ten died...
...people of Lebanon have risen as one man against imperialism," shrilled Nasser's Radio Damascus. Said Radio Moscow: "The Lebanese people have had enough of the American system." In Tripoli Communists and other underground forces won control of the mobs. Saboteurs blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, forcing the company to pump its oil through a branch line in Syria. At the Syrian border, customs guards stopped a suspiciously sagging Chevrolet sedan driven by Louis...
...power of the real anti-Americans was made clear in the Lebanese seaport of Tripoli. There a mob, demonstrating against the assassination of a pro-Nasser editor, ran amuck, burned the USIA library. Before the riot was over, some 15 were dead, another 30 wounded...
...British after the Suez invasion. Increasingly common, too, are old French small arms, apparently supplied by the Syrians, whose army has been recently re-equipped with up-to-date Czech weapons. Both Egypt and Syria, say French intelligence officers, ship their lethal gifts to the Libyan port of Tripoli, where they are picked up by a fleet of Mercedes trucks maintained by the F.L.N. From Tripoli the guns are trucked along the main coastal highway to Tunis...