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An Aruban in Libya

Stories of my years (1966 – 1973) with ESSO in Tripoli

Chapter 17 - The Tragic Tale of DragicaLendić- Bebek

Last picture of Dragica-
Bebek-Lendic before she Secretary Of Commerce Ron
Brown
boarded the ill-fated flight
from Zagreb to Dubrovnik,
April 4, 1996. under contract with the
Picture courtesy Mario Bebek Ghadafi government to
drill water wells as part of a
I met Dragica in Tripoli in Wreckage of the USAF CT-43 on which Dragica travelled as interpreter with the group of Secr. Libyan and United Nations
1971, a couple of months Ron Brown and industrialists on their “mission oh hope”. joint venture to develop
after she had given birth agriculture in the desert.
to a son.She had studied with whom she could prac- there as an interpreter. was working with a mining
English, but had little op- tice what she had learned. company. Both parents
portunity to speak it, so she Dragica’s dream was to Dragica was born in the were from Yugoslavia. Her
was quite excited to meet eventually emigrate to the French speaking part of husband was the Director Continued on Page 16
an English speaking person United States and work Belgium where her father of a Yugoslav company