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...spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused Gaddafi of instigating the kidnap-murder of three U.S. and Belgian diplomats in Khartoum last month...
...President Jaafar Numeiry were troubled by the Palestinian Black September terrorists in their jails: Hussein decided to commute the death sentences of 16 guerrillas but to hold them in prison, while Numeiry proceeded with plans to try eight Black Septembrists for the murder of the American and Belgian diplomats last month...
...Adolf Hitler speaking from his grave? No, but close enough. Those words were spoken in an interview for Dutch television-and they came from Belgium's leading Nazi collaborator in World War II. Of Léon Degrelle, the speaker, who had been a Belgian right-wing politician in the 1930s, Hitler once reportedly said: "If I had a son, I would want him to be like Degrelle...
Other major collaborators-Norway's Vidkun Quisling, France's Pierre Laval-were executed long ago by their countrymen, but Degrelle managed to escape to Spain. Though a Belgian court later sentenced him to death for high treason, the Franco regime has continued to insist that no one by the name of Léon Degrelle lives in Spain...
...days later the two American victims of the Black September massacre in Khartoum were buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Sadness over the ugly deaths of Noel, Moore and Belgian Diplomat Guy Eid was worldwide. But amid the sorrow there was some solace that with the coldblooded killings the Palestinian terrorist movement of Black September may have inflicted a serious wound on itself...