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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi first blamed the U.S., then Israel and finally West Germany for sabotaging the installation, which Tripoli maintains is designed to manufacture pharmaceuticals. Officials in all three countries said they did not know what happened in Rabta and suggested the blaze might have started accidentally...
...state ideology and vowed to support private enterprise. Nicaragua, which over the past year has watched Moscow turn off the arms spigot, is in the final throes of an election process that, whatever the outcome, shows promise of being a legitimate democratic exercise. Even Libya's erratic Muammar Gaddafi, a regular Soviet arms customer, is cultivating closer ties with moderate Arab leaders. Most Soviet client states are making similar adjustments to accommodate the fast-changing times. A look at some of the most important...
...population to Panama's is 100 to 1. Factor in the overwhelming superiority of the American military, and it might as well be 1,000 to 1. Similar odds prevailed during Ronald Reagan's conquest of Grenada in 1983 and his eleven-minutes-over-Libya bombing raid against Muammar Gaddafi in 1986. A none-too-edifying pattern is emerging in the late 20th century. Since conflicts between nuclear-armed big boys may lead to Armageddon, being a superpower has come to mean roaring at mice -- picking on someone emphatically not your own size. Presidents claim, and usually get, domestic credit...
...felt increasingly isolated, especially after the Soviet Union served notice that it would no longer support his aim of strategic parity with Israel. Now only Libya lacks diplomatic relations with Egypt, but even Tripoli is making an attempt to smooth its dealings with Cairo: last October Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi paid his first visit to Egypt in 16 years to meet with Mubarak. By all accounts the session was businesslike but amicable...
When he was told by an American journalist in 1988 that he was "the most hated man in the United States," Manuel Antonio Noriega preened with pleasure. "Do they really hate me even more than Gaddafi?" he asked. Yes, he was assured, even more than Gaddafi. Noriega laughed...