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Britain is America's ally, but that abstract agreement is brought to life by personification, by the friendship and ideological comradeship of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Libya is America's enemy, but that enmity glowers as a private hostility between Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi. If the values of American initiative need commending, Reagan will shed his spotlight on a Mother Hale of Harlem, as he did in the 1985 State of the Union message, and elevate one woman to emblemize an entire economic and social theory. If heroism in war is to be honored, a single veteran will stand beside...
Having served both the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches, Waite has the advantage of appearing religious but not doctrinal. He also has an appreciation for the religious aspects of political confrontations, be they in Libya, Iran or Lebanon. When he met with Gaddafi in December 1984, the two men debated, among other things, the effect of Greek philosophy on Islam and Christianity. Sensibly, when Waite first arrived in Beirut last year, he quickly noted the sufferings of Lebanon's community of some 1 million Shi'ites...
...view whatsoever," says a British diplomat. "He carries out his missions from a strictly humanitarian point of view." Perhaps most important, Waite is a man known to guard confidences jealously. That trait has earned him the trust of not only Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Runcie but Gaddafi and Shi'ite kidnapers...
With such friends, who needs enemies? That was the question that dogged left- lean- ing Irish Opposition Leader Charles Haughey last week after Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi told Irish television viewers that he hoped Haughey would win next year's general election. Gaddafi's remarks were seen as a boost for Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald's flagging coalition, which trails in the polls...
...mercurial Libyan also called on Irish youth to "fight to liberate" Northern Ireland. Infuriated, the Dublin government instructed its diplomats to protest Gaddafi's statement to the Libyan People's Bureau in Rome. Meanwhile, in farflung Chicago, four members of a street gang that espouses a bizarre brand of Islam were indicted on charges of conspiring with Libyan officials to launch terrorist attacks inside...