The World - News from Aug. 8, 1985

Angered by Egypt’s efforts to secure peace with Israel, Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi said he will expel about 100,000 Egyptians working in the country. In an interview in the leftist Cairo newspaper Al Ahali, Kadafi said the Libyan Parliament has decided to “dispense with the services of all foreign workers” to prevent a drain of Libya’s currency. Most of Libya’s foreign workers are Egyptian. “The Egyptian government is responsible for the breach,” Kadafi charged, adding that Cairo’s peace policy “gave a breathing space to the Zionist enemy (Israel).”