Word: tripolis
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...bankrollers, the Saudis (see box), at least did not say no. But the visit to Israel was denounced by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the Soviet Union, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the main rejection-front states, Iraq, Libya and Algeria. Last week the anti-Sadat forces gathered in Tripoli at the behest of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who called the participants the "steadfast states." (Others dubbed the conference the "sorehead summit.") A second meeting of the rejectionists is supposed to take place in Baghdad...
...Syria, the P.L.O. and Lebanon, almost as immediately, said no, and the Soviets soon after responded in kind. Playing it close to the vest, Jordan's King Hussein said that he would go to Cairo if all other invited parties went; he added that he would go to Tripoli if every Arab state, including Egypt, showed...
...symbolic politics," Hoffmann said, adding that he believes Egypt's recent decision to break off diplomatic relations with Syria and four other nations who attended the Tripoli conference is "potentially a more serious matter...
Egyptian embassies were attacked in four capitals. In Athens, a band of Arab protesters were chased off with gunfire that killed one of them; in Beirut, another man died when rocket fire hit the embassy; in Damascus, small bombs exploded outside the Egyptian building; in Tripoli, Libyans burned the embassy...
Among the casualties on the Libyan side, according to reports circulating in the Arab world, were three Russians killed and one wounded among the estimated 1,500 Soviet technicians manning the radar equipment with which Moscow has provided Gaddafi. Cairo claimed to be holding 42 Libyan prisoners; Tripoli said it had captured 60 Egyptians. The Egyptians admitted the loss of two planes, one of which was photographed by the gleeful Libyans, but outside sources monitoring the war counted seven Egyptian planes downed...