LV Prime Minister's office
CU Crowd shouting outside (3 shots)
CU U.A.R. Foreign Minister arriving
CU Crowd.
LV Ditto
SCU Gaddafi speaks to crowd through hailer
MCU Crowd applauding
MCU Gaddafi speaking
MCU Crowd applauding
MCU Gaddafi facing crowd
TV Crowd
CU UAR flag on car

(FOLLOWING DAY)
CU Sign on building
MV UAR Foreign Minister leaving
MV Other ministers leaving
MV Mounted policeman riding off
CU Gaddafi seated in car

TRANSCRIPT: SEQ. 17 QUESTION: "Is the meeting continuing today?"
GADDAFI: "No, this is the final day."
QUESTION: "Today is the final one?"
GADDAFI: "Yes."
QUESTION: "Now what is the main decision here today...you can't say the main decision taken?"
GADDAFI: "Anyhow, it has gone very well."

Initials AH/BHH/BB
Background: Returning from a last minute mission to heal the split in the Arab world over Middle East peace proposals, Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi was feted by Tripoli crowds when he opened the five-nation conference on Arab unity on Wednesday (August 5).
Though his efforts to bring the Iraqis to the conference table were unsuccessful--Iraq continues to oppose Jordanian and Egyptian acceptance of the American Middle East peace plan--Colonel Gaddafi said later that the talks had gone very well.
Just before the conference started, Col. Gaddafi told the cheering crowd that Libya's Revolutionary Command Council believed that the Arab world would be strengthened as a result of the Tripoli conference.
Though no official communique was issued at the end of the conference on Thursday, and although the American peace plan was apparently not discussed, Col. Gaddafi said he was well satisfied with progress as he left the final session: