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...Force rushed paramedics and tents from Wheelus airbase at Tripoli, and the British ferried in doctors and nurses from their base at nearby Benghazi. At week's end more than 200 bodies had been recovered and an estimated 300-500 still lay buried in the ruins...
...Libya. Wheelus Air Base, support and training center for U.S. Air Force units in Europe. The lease agreement runs through...
...fact, the U.S. is rapidly running out of airbases in the Arab world. After the three Strategic Air Command bomber bases in Morocco close, as agreed, in 1963, the U.S.'s only remaining base in the Arab world will be the $100 million installation at Wheelus Field, Libya...
Touchy and resentful of U.S. aid, the Libyans are nevertheless trying to wangle more of it. The U.S. has a lease until 1971 on Wheelus Air Force Base, where under ideal weather conditions shrieking F-IOI and F-102 jet fighters land and take off in flocks of 500 a day. But the U.S. has to listen if the King's ministers want to renegotiate. For the use of Wheelus, the U.S. paid an initial sum of $7,000,000 and 24,000 tons of wheat, agreed to an annual $4,000,000 rental until...
...neutrality in Arab affairs, cautious friendship with the West, hatred of Israelis and Communists. If Americans on the scene often think their motives are misunderstood, they can take some comfort in the fact that no other foreigner fares much better. An active Soviet embassy, with rooftop antennas obviously monitoring Wheelus' frequencies, is allowed to operate, but it shares the frustrations of the U.S. in trying to cope with Libya's fierce pride...