Word: gaddafis
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...intelligence agents suspected of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. The understanding was that the two would be passed on for trial in either the U.S. or Britain. But when an Arab League delegation called in Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pronounced his ambassador "incorrect" and sent them away empty-handed. Meanwhile, the World Court in the Hague opened hearings on a Libyan charge that the U.S. and Britain have resorted to "blackmail" by threatening the use of force unless Libya surrenders the suspected bombers...
...plan to the American public. But others say Bush should play to his foreign policy strengths, telling Americans that he wants to solidify the gains in Eastern Europe, stabilize the former Soviet Union, win a free-trade agreement with Mexico and keep foreign bullies like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and North Korea's Kim Il Sung in line. Said one disgusted campaign official last week: "This man brought peace to the world, but he's afraid to use his own playbook...
Ronald Reagan, naturally, had the best instincts for how Hollywood would handle these things. He staged a dogfight with Muammar Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra in 1981. Five years later, Reagan wowed the world with Thirty Seconds over Tripoli. That raid was nothing less than an assassination attempt, in the same spirit as the cloak-and-dagger boys' dreams of using exploding cigars and Mafia hit men to finish off Castro in the 1960s. Much was made of how U.S. bombers taught Libya a lesson for its sponsorship of terrorism. Maybe so, but they missed their...
...another. Castro has already outlived Kennedy by 29 years. By the time Ho died in 1969, U.S. opposition to the Vietnam War had driven Johnson back to Texas. Khomeini went on taunting the Great Satan for nine years after Carter's defeat. Reagan may have given Gaddafi the scare of his life, but only one of them is in retirement...
...news on CNN was vital for anticipating fluctuations in world financial markets. The terrorists who held Terry Anderson hostage in Lebanon used CNN as the vehicle to release a videotape of his appeal for help. CNN can be seen at the El Kabir Hotel in Tripoli, favored by Muammar Gaddafi's associates. It can also be seen at the Vatican, where Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, rises by 6 a.m. to watch and "know what to pray about...