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...that the cold war is over, MUAMMAR GADDAFI is feeling left out. Early this summer Britain brushed off his clumsy attempt to make up for the 1984 London murder of a female British constable by an unidentified gunman firing from Libya's embassy. A Gaddafi aide slipped a visiting Member of Parliament a check for $500,000, made out to a British police association, but London sent it back. Last month, trying to repair relations with the U.S., the Libyan leader sent President Bush an elaborate invitation to his gala opening of the Great Man-Made River project. No reply...
...knocked Iraq out of the game for the foreseeable future, though Saddam Hussein's willingness to strike back if he can should not be underestimated. Libya -- also chastened by / U.S. bombs five years ago -- is conducting what the U.S. State Department calls a "charm offensive." Even so, President Muammar Gaddafi still provides bases and support for Abu Nidal and other terrorists...
...Minister Ibrahim Bishari of the report. Libya's motive supposedly was revenge for the U.S. air strike on Tripoli in 1986, itself in retaliation for a Libyan-inspired bombing in Germany, and for France's defeat of Libyan-supported guerrillas in Chad. U.S. officials long thought Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had got the message and had stopped his once loudly proclaimed support of terrorism -- but perhaps the message received was not the one intended...
Libyan leader MUAMMAR GADDAFI, spooked by Operation Desert Storm and feeling lonely now that Syria has tilted toward the West, however slightly, is trying to end his isolation from the West. The strongman met secretly in Tripoli with Teddy Taylor, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, to talk about re-establishing diplomatic ties that were cut off in 1984, after a London policewoman monitoring an anti-Gaddafi rally was killed by a sniper hidden in the Libyan embassy. Gaddafi apologized and presented Taylor with a $500,000 check to a British police charity as restitution, but the Libyan...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has consistently ignored Muammar Gaddafi's repeated calls to merge the two countries in a pan-Arab union. But economic necessity is drawing Egypt and Libya closer together. In the interest of improved relations, Mubarak is shrugging off the Libyan's antics. (A recent Gaddafi stunt: using a tractor to demolish an Egyptian border post.) Earlier this month, when Mubarak visited Tripoli for a 12-hour summit, the Egyptian leader said his country welcomed economic cooperation with Libya and expressed predictable support for "the rights of the brotherly Palestinian people." Western diplomats say Gaddafi may return...