European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday May 18, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 17 Down was saudi financial support Lor the Palestine liberation organization. Murphy contended in earlier committee hearings that the saudi Money was earmarked for refugee Camps in Lebanon describing this As a humanitarian gesture that he claimed lands to moderate the recruiting of terrorists. He Hdldn l mention if it was possible to Trace How the Plo actually puts to use the funds it receives. In any Case. Murphy s argument appeared to make no difference in the outcome. Clyvia Maksoud ambassador in the United states of the 22-Natlon Arab league. Said last week Afler the saudi arms package defeat there is deep concern and dismay in the Arab world at he hostility evident in. Official us statements and actions in recent Days. We Are alarmed by the scope of he anti Arab trend and surprised that there seems to be so Little thought Given in the United states to its damaging consequences he said. One consequence another state department official said laths alienation of the Arab world and alter that the moslem world. Every vote like the saudi arms defeat is another Nail in the coffin of our policy in Iha Middle the official a specialist in Arab affairs said the congressional rhetoric in the saudi debate was filth Grade level there was no recognition at All that the Arab world is a Patchwork quilt joined by a single language in which the egyptian is As much like the iraqi As the Southern Call Dornlan is like a israeli officials who travelled to Washington last week with defense minister a Ytzhak Rabin expressed worries that the alienation and the Arab world s fragmenting Over Kha Daty is raising tensions to the danger Point along Israel s Northern Border something thai Israel does not want. The israeli officials said they did not predict any Early outbreak of lighting with Syria but they also said the current situation Means there is no Prospect of any kind of resumption in the negotiations about a Middle East settlement. Facilities to the soviet Fleet to counter . Pressure Bui Western diplomats in Tripoli speaking last month on the condition of anonymity said they believe Moscow will be slow to respond to khad Afy s overtures the soviets Are trying to cultivate moderate countries in the persian Gull said one Diplomat. That s a bigger prize for them and they will Wani to make sure their support for khad Afy does not threaten this a Mulla Sorbal up Pori Lor khad Afy the soviets have in recent months been cautious in their approach to the libyan Leader. During a Visell to Moscow in september Khadely failed to win Kremlin agreement for increased arms sales and came away without a treaty of peace and Friendship such As the soviets have signed with Syria and South Yemen. The soviets pressed him to repay a $2million debt but agreed to Long term economic cooperation to improve the North african country s lagging Economy following the . Faid. Eastern bloc sources in Tripoli said the soviets were pressing Kha Daty to conduct a thorough investigation into his military s poor Perlor Manee against american warplanes Belore they would pour More Money into Libya s defences. The greening of Libya by Robert associated press traveler at Tripoli Airport in Libya can Purchase the hottest Selling item in the. Spartan duty free shop a full color poster of headless corpses if that s too Strong Lor the taste or it supplies Are sold out the Airport s Green Book shop also oilers posters of a smiling cot. Moa mar khad Afy and nattering commentaries on the political thoughts of the Man president Reagan called the mad dog of the Middle East. A stroll through Tripoli s Airport oilers insights into the political life of this country of 3 million the International mouse that roars at the Lions of the world. Unlike other airports in the Arab world the arrival and departure signs and All announcements Over the Airport Public address Suslam Are exclusively in arabic. It s part of khad Afy s policy of eliminating the official use of foreign languages which he regards As a vestige of colonial domination. There is one exception however to the restrictions on the use of foreign languages. Large Green signs containing English quotations from khad Afy s political Bible the Green Book Are everywhere in the terminal. They proclaim khad Afy slogans such As no democracy without Peoples congresses or partners. Not wage Green has been proclaimed the official color of the libyan revolution. Elsewhere khad Afy May be widely regarded As Bloodthirsty and considered eccentric. In Libya he i portrayed As a serious political thinker a Pioneer in humanity s struggle against imperialist domination and a Champion of True one German language both published by the. Thop file Rule reve Luthary conference to Tripoli libyan government and on Sale in the bookshop bears the Lille from Hegel to it equates khad Afy Wilh the 19th-Century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel whose works full fenced the later schools of idealism existentialism socialism and instrumentalism. Alter the april 15 . Air raids the Airport bookshop began Selling posters purportedly showing civilian victims of the bombing some of whom were decal tales or burned beyond recognition. Sorry finished All told out was the reply when a reporter asked if he could buy one of the posters copies of which were exhibited in the shop window. The posters like those exhibited Dally in the City s downtown Green Square appear part of a government Campaign against Reagan s claim that 1 he attack was directed at centers of terrorism and not at the libyan people keeping with khad Afy s decentralized style of. Government which rests on a system of local sem autonomous Peoples committees five different sets of police roam the Airport. Each is Independent of the others. Embassies warn foreign travellers that if they run afoul of any one of the five ii May take consular officers Days to determine which group made the arrest before efforts to gain their release can even begin. Khad Afy s philosophy proclaims the people Rule that under his Brand of socialism workers Are partners not wage the Green Book boasts this formula brings real Freedom and democracy. Western critics experienced in dealing with the libyans say the system also Breeds waste inefficiency and frustration. It sometimes seems no one is in charge. Accentor arabic by Edwar Schumacher new York times a t Al Fatah University a bustling Campus of Concrete High rises and outdoor cafes in Tripoli Libya Mohammed had jus come from his physics class Here he said in rudimentary English were his notes and he showed two pages of a neat Blue arabic script in a spiral notebook. But there was a problem he said. The professor was a bangladeshi and Between his and the professor s English which was also rudimentary Mohammed could Only Hope that his notes reflected what the professor had actually said. Ii bad said Mohammed who would not give his last name. Should Only be it was a problem plaguing Many libyan students and so recently the nation s schools found a solution they largely abolished the use of English. Revolutionary student leaders burned a Small stack of English and French books at at Fatah University the English and French departments the Only ones for foreign languages were ordered phased out Only students already majoring in those subjects were allowed to speaking foreign professors indians pakistanis poles and others who teach almost All the science mathematics and engineering courses in the universities were advised to learn arabic. Hundreds of ghanaian who teach English in the. High schools were told their contracts would not be renewed. Algerians moroccans and others who teach French were told the same although French is much less prevalent than English. It would seem Normal thai Arab students would want their courses and books to be in arabic. But the severity of the measures also reflected the pervasive often impractical and sometimes contradictory efforts by the government of col. Moa mar khad Afy to arable that desert nation totally All Public signs for example Are already in arabic. Most non Arab visitors cannot Tell from Ham what Street they Are on or what kind of store it is. Yet English still thrives in Libya in some ways that according to libyans suggest that the government might quietly Back Down some Day. Cars carry shortwave radios on which Many libyans listen to tha bbl. Vide Casselle players Are common in libyan Homes. A shopkeeper said that Arnbo was in big demand despite the jingoistic american message
