Word: libyan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans escaped through a side exit, the crowd set fires that heavily damaged the embassy's first floor. The U.S. has rejected Libya's apology as inadequate, and suspended embassy operations-a step just short of breaking diplomatic relations. The State Department complained that the Libyan government had ignored repeated American requests for extra guards (only one was assigned to the embassy...
...week, but not before the incident had shaken the House of Saud to its sandy foundations. Most authorities are now convinced that the group, which numbered between 200 and 300, was trained and armed in Marxist South Yemen, and that the tab for the venture was picked up by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The Saudis also claimed that the young leader of the group, Mohammed al-Quraishi, a theology student who called himself the Muslim Mahdi (Messiah), had been killed in the fighting. A Saudi official declared last week that the objective of the gunmen had been to "terrorize...
...some of the more militant price hawks in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Iraq, Libya and Iran all announced boosts of 10% or more in the overall cost of their crude, and other producers seem likely to follow suit. What really alarmed oil consumers was that the Libyan and Iranian rise, like that announced by Mexico a week before but unlike those announced by Iraq or earlier by Kuwait broke through the $23.50 per bbl. price the cartel set in June as a "ceiling" for at least six months...
...specifically criticized a Third World symposium at the Law School last year that presented a human rights award to the Libyan ambassador. "Jews here have inexcusably been treated as second-class citizens," Dershowitz said...
...leadership, under Gerry Adams, has regrouped the I.R.A. into smaller cells and tightened screening against informers. It has negotiated alliances with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which supplies arms, money and training, and the Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi, which, McMullen says, provides loans, arms and transportation...