Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found charisma to strengthen Arab unity. He played a major role in Lahore, Pakistan, last week as delegates from 38 nations met for a quinquennial Islamic summit. As expected. Middle Eastern issues dominated the agenda. The Islamic leaders -including Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne as well as Sadat and Assad-issued a strong demand for the eventual return of Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem...
...that it last controlled in 1967. In expectation of that symbolic gain, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat last week nailed the outcome of the war as "the first genuine Arab victory in the past 500 years." At President Sadat's side, significantly, was Libya's maverick strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had gone to Cairo to make a surprising public apology for having criticized Egypt's conduct of the war and its subsequent negotiations with Israel...
...even stranger flight of fancy is Berg's courtship of Libyan Strongman Gaddafi. Last spring, the Mo Letters began to talk about "godly socialism" and to describe Gaddafi as the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin sources of evil, godless Communism and American materialism. The Moslem leader, in return, has commended the C.O.G. on Libyan radio and has invited a son and daughter of Berg to visit him in Tripoli...
...streets. Soldiers ransacked the manuscripts of Pablo Neruda. A folksinger was shot for entertaining the prisoners in Chile's national stadium, which had been converted into a concentration camp by the military regime. Meanwhile, the North American press pressed on; The Times wrote that Agosto Pinochet, Chile's new strongman, was "quiet and businesslike," "powerfully built," and presumably despite his predisposition towards repression, a man with a "sense of humor...
...Middle East's chronically unsuccessful suitor, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, seems to need the services of a professional matchmaker. All his past efforts to join Libya with other Arab countries have failed. Now Libya's betrothal to Tunisia, which Gaddafi and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba happily announced in mid-January, has apparently been broken...