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...Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis, reporting from India and Pakistan, began studying the black market in nuclear technology in 1978, when he ran TIME's Cairo bureau. Says he: "That's when I first heard that Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's strongman, was trying to get a nuclear weapon." After his reassignment to South Asia three years ago, Brelis started to amass notes about developments on the Indian subcontinent. He found that some of the most reliable sources on the Pakistani nuclear program were Indian officials and scientists. (Fittingly, the Pakistanis were prime founts of information about Indian nuclear progress.) Says...
Libya's persistent bid for nuclear power vividly dramatizes the potential menace of proliferation. For almost 16 years, the country's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has been supporting international terrorism and devising schemes to worry the West. Were a nuclear weapon or two to fall into his hands, his capacity for troublemaking would increase intolerably. In 1981 Gaddafi told TIME that the atom bomb was "a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons." A few days later he reportedly told his top advisers that he planned to channel a substantial amount...
Though Libya is nowhere near achieving that goal, it has not been for lack of trying. Even before he signed the nonproliferation treaty in 1975, Gaddafi began hatching proposals. In 1970 he sent a top aide, Abdul Salam Jalloud, to Peking in an attempt to buy an atom bomb. China turned him down. Beginning in 1973 the colonel helped bankroll part of Pakistan's bombmaking effort, and even before he was rebuffed several years later by President Mohammed Zia ul- Haq, he had started to make overtures to Pakistan's archenemy, India. When New Delhi restricted the extent of nuclear...
...Cockerill-Sambre, in an effort to gain engineering assistance for nuclear projects. The contract would have been worth nearly $1 billion, but under U.S. pressure the Belgians backed out. Some support, however, has apparently been provided by Argentina, in return for arms valued at more than $100 million that Gaddafi supplied during the Falklands...
...council also renewed diplomatic relations with Libya last week, having already asked Libyan exiles hostile to Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to leave the country. In return, Gaddafi, who has supported the 10,000 Sudanese rebels led by former Army Colonel John Garang, urged them to make peace with the new ; government in Khartoum. But the council has so far been unable to achieve a reconciliation with Garang, who said his rebels would continue to fight until the government is entirely in the hands of civilians. His intransigence may lessen, however. Said a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "There is already...