Word: gaddafis
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...four Britons being held by Iranian authorities. Three years later he again intervened for Brit ain, this time in Libya, where four British citizens had been jailed, unwitting pawns in an ugly political duel between the governments in London and Tripoli. Following a Christmas Day meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan strongman's Bedouin tent, the Britons were freed. In September 1985 Waite played a still unspecified role in the release of a U.S. hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, who had been held for 16 months in Lebanon...
...that the U.S was considering a joint action with France to drive Libyan troops out of Chad. According to the Post, a State Department planning paper about the deception campaign had suggested that a scheduled trip to Chad by a U.S. general "provides an opportunity for disinformation to reach Gaddafi that the U.S. and France are developing contingency plans for a 'Chad Option.' " Finally, the Journal claimed that the "Sea Wind" exercises, long-planned U.S.-Egyptian maneuvers under way in the Mediterranean at the time of its Aug. 25 story, "are intended to keep the Libyans off balance...
...anything substantially new was afoot. The Pentagon denied plans for impending military action, and even Poindexter quietly cautioned reporters that the Journal story had been inflated. The story in TIME's Sept. 8 issue referred to all "the rumors" and said, "The shadowboxing smacked of psychological warfare to keep Gaddafi off balance...
...National Endowment for the Humanities, which supplied $600,000 of the program's $3.5 million budget. The series, she charges, "frequently degenerates into anti-Western diatribe" and fails to meet NEH's "standards of balance and objectivity." Among her complaints: a sympathetic portrayal of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. At Cheney's insistence, NEH's name was removed from the show's credits, and a request for funds to promote the show was denied...
...landscapes. The rhetoric is sometimes excessive ("the collective burial of a people," "Western sharks in search of a pound of flesh"). And Mazrui's approach can be annoyingly simplistic: his blaming, for instance, virtually all African violence on weapons imported from the West and his naive romanticizing of Gaddafi...