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What else can be made of Farrakhan's sucking up to Muammar Gaddafi, who, the official Libyan news agency reports, pledged that Libya will give the Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without...
...GADDAFI, ELECTION ADVISER...
...tour of Africa, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan visited Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Libya's official news agency said the two men discussed the situation of Muslims, blacks and other "oppressed minorities" and how to "unify, mobilize and organize" them in U.S. elections...
Sketches were not always on target. To no avail, one set of Pentagon planners consulted psychics to pinpoint where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was staying before U.S. warplanes attacked Libya in 1986. Another intelligence unit asked psychics to picture where an agent suspected of being a double stashed the money he made spying for the other side. (They could not say.) "Sometimes it seems that these people are right on," says Jessica Utts, a statistician at the University of California at Davis who contributed to the CIA study. "But nobody knows when those times come...
...pleased with the merchants who voluntarily helped supervise the prices, selling goods at cheaper than normal prices when they could have charged more. I am ashamed of the Japanese government, which treasures procedures and systems so much that it delayed in reacting to the calamity. I am disgusted with Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, who was heartless and malevolent in cursing the more than 5,000 people who were killed in the quake, saying, ``This is certainly a divine punishment. We were expecting it, and we asked God to inflict it on Japan, which manipulated all its economic resources...