YOU know," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser mused during an Arab meeting in Cairo shortly before his death last year, "I rather like Gaddafi. He reminds me of myself when I was that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab...
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