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‘(and not the U.S. Embassy) made available to Billy Carter automobiles with stars-and~-stripes banners escorted by several army motorcycles. lLianza described it as a "princely hospitality," pointing out that each person in the party must have cost the Libyan Government at ©] =” “- Yeast one million (lire?) a day, with the Libyan = ‘y 0 hts : Z ” pes Pay ake Ln fam tac a es a a tl cee ce eS mt. . we . ig bag. rf . . Se ce es in ae ee mene ot seem remem Aah wit ny Government picking up the tab without batting ‘an eyelash. While in Tripoli, a decision was made calling for the establishment of a financial company in Georgia whose purpose is to channel Libyan investments. The capital © stock was so divided: 40 percent went to Billy Carter, 12 1/2 percent each to Senator Hudgins, Carter's friend Coleman, real estate agents Lianza and Jordan and 10 percent to a gentleman whose name was not mentioned, probably attorney David Gambrell, also from Atlanta, who in 1970 was Jimmy Carter's treasurer while he was campaigning to become Governor of Georgia. Later, this gentleman was chosen by the President as the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Attorney Gambrell was also the man who made the arrangements for a return visit by a Libyan delegation, which (at Libyan expense, and not at the expense of the U.S. Treasury). spent time in the United States of America in January 1979. Human rights are obviously not greatly respected in Libya, where special tribunals have sentenced to death | tens of officers (about 40 by the end of last year and already 20 or so this year) who had expressed criticisms against Kaddafi's Islamic fanaticism and had bad-mouthed - an expedition of 3,000 Libyan paratroopers sent to Kampala aboard a number of C-130 Hercules‘s and a Boeing 727 to try a last-ditch defense of the bloody regime of Idi Amin. Despite the use of TU-22 bombers purchased from the Soviets and many ultramodern artillery pieces, mortars and automatic weapons, the Libyans lost more than a thousand men in a few days and the survivors . sat were able to return to Libya and avoid becoming prisoners of war thanks to a ransom of 20 million dollars paid in advance by Kaddafi to Julius Nyerere. a