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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. Lianza described it as a "princely hospitality," pointing out that each person in the party must have cost the Libyan Government at least one million (lire?) a day, with the Libyan 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 l970 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'i979.". 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 3,0oo Libyan paratroopers sent to Kampala aboard a number of C-l30 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 were able to return to Libya and avoid becoming prisoners advance by Kaddafi to Julius Nyerere..