Word: libya
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...warn President Nixon of a possible outbreak of fighting unless earnest discussions are under way before the current cease-fire expires. At the same time, Hussein, who still depends on the West for arms, will seek more aid to replace some of the $24 million annual subsidy that Libya's revolutionary government canceled after the September fighting between Hussein's troops and Arab guerrillas...
...Touré maxim from the early 1960s, when Pan-Africanism was more vibrant than it is now: "Africa is like a human body. If one finger is cut, the whole body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan and Dar es Salaam. In Lagos, students toted placards reading DOWN WITH NATO and shouted "Go home, pigs!" at white...
Britain, too, is having second thoughts about the proposed sale of 188 Centurion tanks to Libya. British public opinion, already roiled by the prospect of a resumption of sales to South Africa, would strongly condemn the deployment of Centurions against Israel. But once again, Moscow may take up the slack if the British kill the sale...
...federation plan has already had a noticeable impact on other Arab states. Algeria, loath to see a huge new power rise on its eastern border, will court Libya next month, when President Houari Boumedienne visits Tripoli...
...Libya is already subsidizing Egypt out of oil incomes at a rate of $55 million annually, and Cairo is hungry for more. Libyans have been heard to murmur, moreover, that the Egyptian technicians sent to Tripoli last year are "just foreignersas bad as the Italians, the British or the Americans." In view of such feelings, the will-o'-the-wisp of Arab unity may prove as elusive as ever...