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Moscow may believe that by waiting it can benefit if the U.S. fails to resolve the impasse in Lebanon. But there are signs that such a strategy may ultimately backfire. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi called East bloc ambassadors in for an angry lecture, warning them that "we have no answers to give our masses about the attitudes of our friends toward Zionist aggression." The effects of Moscow's reticence could also be far-reaching. Said a P.L.O. official bluntly: "Perhaps the Soviets feel they have not lost much in Lebanon, but I assure you they have lost something...
...characterization of Yasser Arafat's policies as "relatively moderate" makes him sound like a middle-of-the-road American politician. He is moderate only in comparison with such immoderates as Gaddafi and Khomeini. On any other scale, Arafat, who has advocated the elimination of Israel, and who is probably the person most responsible for the proliferation of worldwide terrorism, would be recognized as the extremist that...
...helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge in a seaside villa in Tripoli, beyond the reach of frustrated U.S. authorities. But last week he got careless, and federal agents managed to ensnare him in an ingenious trap set on three continents...
...Wilson and Terpil (who is still at large and was last reported to be living in Beirut) were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington for supplying explosives to Libya, recruiting military personnel to run a training camp for Libyan terrorists and conspiring to kill a Gaddafi opponent living in exile in Egypt. Wilson allegedly hired former American military pilots to fly Libyan planes and helicopters, with some of them taking part in Tripoli's intervention in neighboring Chad in 1980. He is also suspected of peddling sophisticated American electronic equipment to Middle East countries and attempting...
Habre's victory was assured when Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi snubbed Goukouni's last-ditch plea for assistance. In 1980 Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...