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...Communist] Party that hewed closely to Moscow's line. After the 1978 coup that brought rivals in a more in dependent party faction to power, he was sent off into diplomatic exile as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. In December 1979, when the Soviets invaded and killed his predecessor, Hafizullah Amin, Karmal emerged as the new leader...
...Against the World, by M. Gaddafi and I. Amin...
Paradoxically, Gaddafi has little to show for his efforts. His merger attempts were rebuffed. His military backing for Uganda's Idi Amin Dada failed to keep that despot in power. Despite generous support for the Palestinians, he has few real friends in P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat's entourage. Gaddafi's only notable success came last December when his forces invaded and virtually annexed Chad...
...from 1876 to 1909; Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader from 1929 to 1953; Adolf Hitler, an automatic club member as leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945; Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976; and the only living honoree, Uganda's brutish, exiled Dictator Idi Amin. Seven politicians, a barbarian, a lady-in-hating and a frustrated artist. But only one woman? Says Steven Schlesinger, one of the voters: "We only selected one woman not because we're chauvinists but because few women have been in a position to cause the kind of damage...
Joel Lisker, chief counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, doubts that the number of former agents involved in such traffic is large. "But it doesn't need to be," he adds. "Terpil and Wilson alone could keep Gaddafi and Idi Amin supplied with everything they need." Lisker suspects that the CIA probably did know about the Wilson and Terpil dealings with the Libyan dictator, explaining, "Gaddafi is the No. 1 guy the CIA wants to get next to. He's a bad guy -and so are Wilson and Terpil. How else could...