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...across Europe, Libyans suddenly found themselves under diplomatic fire last week. West Germany told more than half the 41 representatives stationed at Libya's People's Bureau in Bonn that they had seven days to leave the country. Britain deported 22 Libyan students suspected of activism and informed more than 300 others that they would have to leave shortly. Spain demanded that eleven Libyans quit the country. The Italians arrested a former Libyan diplomat for plotting to kill U.S. Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb and announced a 20% cut in Libya's diplomatic corps. And the French expelled four Libyans...
...later, another rash of terrorist attacks broke out. Two bombs were planted inside a building in central Vienna; only one exploded, however, and it produced no casualties. An American diplomat was shot in the North Yemen town of San'a, though by week's end he seemed likely to survive. In the southeastern French city of Lyons, a British regional director of the American firm Black & Decker was shot twice in the head. And on Saturday, in the same city, a bomb was set off at the local American Express office. While none of the attacks were necessarily mounted...
While the sudden air strike strained relations among America's allies, Libya was equally at odds with a few of its friends. "The Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced...
...position of its moderate Arab allies, who found themselves compelled by the air raid to rally behind their Libyan brothers. "The Arabs are more upset with the way the U.S. went about punishing Gaddafi than with the fact they did it," says one European diplomat at the U.N. "They would have preferred less obtrusive means." One possible gesture of conciliation that may be discussed at the Tokyo summit would be for Europe to enlist all other North African nations in the fight against terrorism. Explained one top Italian official: "Rather than allowing Gaddafi to separate America from Western Europe...
...cker recently moved up an official visit to Austria so he could be received by Kirchschläger rather than risk having Waldheim as his host. U.N. officials who served under him have reportedly said that the former Secretary-General was regarded as a blatant opportunist rather than a dedicated diplomat. That is hardly the image Waldheim tried to project at the beginning of the campaign, when he was portrayed as "A Man the World Trusts." In recent weeks, however, his campaign has adopted a more defiant slogan: "We Austrians Will Vote for Whom We Want." --By John Moody. Reported...