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...million this year, more than any other African country except Egypt. At the same time, however, Suwar al Dahab promised to try to improve relations with two meddlesome neighbors, Libya and Ethiopia. As if hoping to enlist the new regime in his own cause, Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, made a point of being the first leader to recognize Sudan's junta. "Reagan has nothing to do with Sudan," the Libyan said. "If he interferes, his nose will...
...European streets, mines strewn in the Red Sea, even the awards ceremony for Nobel Peace Prizewinner Bishop Desmond Tutu disrupted by a bomb threat. From the elegant Libyan embassy on a leafy London square, a mad spray of gunfire aimed at marching dissidents killed a young British policewoman. Muammar Gaddafi's murderous schemes embarrassed him when Egyptian authorities faked the death of a former Libyan Prime Minister marked for extinction by Tripoli. Gaddafi took responsibility for the assassination that never...
...President's attempt to negotiate with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi for the withdrawal of Libyan troops from Chad led to a fiasco that has hurt Mitterrand's credibility in the one field where his competence had gone virtually unquestioned. After the French withdrew 3,000 paratroopers from Chad between last September and November, Mitterrand discovered that, contrary to the agreement with Gaddafi, a substantial number of Libyan troops remained. A chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that...
...Gaddafi's motives are probably impossible to divine. Recently a team of editors from a major European periodical were granted a rare exclusive interview with the Libyan. The editors were ushered inside Gaddafi's baroque home at a military base outside Tripoli. The dictator was dressed in an all-white uniform and surrounded by a squad of armed bodyguards. But as the interview progressed, the journalists began to realize that their subject was not making sense. No sense at all. In fact, say the editors, the two-hour session was incoherent. Says one of the magazine...
With the miners slowly drifting back to work, Scargill is going to need lots of help wherever he can find it. A month ago he turned to Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi for aid - although, apparently, none has yet been received - and he now appears to be seeking continued Soviet support. The Kremlin is not without sympathy for the miners' leader: last year, while visiting Moscow, Scargill noted that the threat to world peace came from that "most dangerous duo, President Ray-Gun and the plutonium blond, Margaret Thatcher." He also attacked the outlawed Polish trade union Solidarity...