To hear Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi tell it, 'twould be a marriage made in heaven. If only Egyptpoor, overpopulated and beleaguered by an aggressive Israelwould agree to a complete merger with oil-rich, underpopulated Libya, the two countries could at last fulfill their Arab destiny. Gaddafi, 31, ruggedly handsome and undeniably charismatic, says that he would even settle into a back seat and let Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, 54, run the show as President of the new state.
Trouble is that Gaddafi's glowing vision of union is not quite matched in Egypt. On a recent high-pressure, two-week visit to Egypt to...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
