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...Middle East's chronically unsuccessful suitor, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, seems to need the services of a professional matchmaker. All his past efforts to join Libya with other Arab countries have failed. Now Libya's betrothal to Tunisia, which Gaddafi and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba happily announced in mid-January, has apparently been broken...
Shoot to Kill. The Times of London, among others, last week directly blamed Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi for underwriting much of the terrorism, including the Dec. 17 massacre at Rome and an earlier Shootout at Athens International Airport. Gaddafi, who last week jointly announced his decision to merge his country with neighboring Tunisia, probably does give some oil money to the guerrillas, and provides them with haven from time to time. But it is an open question among intelligence agencies whether Gaddafi himself directly orders such terrorism. Many European authorities would just as soon not find out, since Europe...
Libya's ascetic ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is not known as a connoisseur of humor, especially when it is at his own expense. So a satirical article about him in Turin's La Stampa last month enraged him. "It seems," ran the mock-fan-magazine prose, "that he has an ulcer, it seems that he is a homosexual, that he sleeps on a mattress of tobacco leaves, that he has a harem of 48 wives in Switzerland." Libya immediately demanded that the article's coauthors be dismissed from La Stampa, one of Italy's most respected...
...Stampa happens to be owned by Fiat, a giant industrial conglomerate that is not in the business of offending influential heads of state. Though he balked at firing the reporters, Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli paid a visit to Libya's embassy in Rome, hoping to mollify Gaddafi. Agnelli failed dramatically. Last week the Arab League Boycott Committee in Beirut threatened a ban on all Fiat products in Arab nations unless Agnelli sacks La Stampa Editor Arrigo Levi, a Jew who once fought in the Israeli army. Agnelli is sticking with his editor. If carried out, the threat could...
...felt was liberalizing life in Greece much too quickly. Just what plans loannidis now has for Greece remain unclear. Some observers consider him a rigid, puritanical xenophobe-he has never been outside Greece or Cyprus -who might try to turn Greece into a European equivalent of Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. One thing is certain: he does not plan to return Greece to democracy any time soon...