War of words: Sadat responds
(NZ.P. A.Reuter—Copyright) ! CAIRO. April 13. ! The relations between Egypt and Libya weakened! (still further today after; (President Sadat had desjeribed the Libyan leader,! Colonel Gadaffi, as “100 per) !cent sick, possessed by ai I devil which makes him imagine things.” President Sadat told the; Kuwaite newspaper, “Al-j Sayasseh,” that he was particularly irritated by the, radio and press campaign in Libya attacking his policies and, later, his family. “Gadaffi has no principles, contradicts himself, and can-| not make . decisions,” Presi-: dent Sadat, said. “Although; differences between us I should have been confined to principles, he is now attack-; ing my home and my family.
“He lived in my house and I treated him as one of. my sons. His family lived, with us, but. still he spoke trash about my family. This; is a 100 per cent sick man.” The Libyan press and: radio, in a recent attack on! the Egyptian leader, des-1 cribed him as a “Caesar,” I and his wife as a “Cleopatra! who squandered money! lavishly in Europe on i dresses and on wedding; ceremonies for her daugh-!
The war of. words was initiated by the Libyan leaderj during the Middle East war I of October. 1973, and by] Egypt’s refusal to merge; with Libya. j
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33819, 16 April 1975, Page 8
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