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...early 1980s. Fiat's profits increased 113% last year, to a record $884 million on sales of $18 billion. But the company has been unable to escape an increasingly embarrassing problem: about 15% of its stock is owned by Libya, and two representatives from the land of Muammar Gaddafi sit on Fiat's 25-member board...
...went further. "We didn't think it was perhaps useful," he said, "to put all of that into a public statement telling terrorists exactly what it was we intended to do." Shultz, ordinarily Buddha-like, was downright ebullient. When asked what the agreement would mean to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Shultz exclaimed, "The message is: 'You've had it, pal. You are isolated. You are recognized as a terrorist...
...allegations against Syria present a thorny policy problem for the U.S. After all, it was what the Reagan Administration called "irrefutable evidence" of Libyan complicity in the La Belle attack that led the U.S. to send its warplanes against Muammar Gaddafi's country. What if Syria were also involved? At a news conference last week, President Reagan said, "If we have the same kind of evidence with regard to other countries, they will be subject to the same treatment...
Though Syrian President Hafez Assad has so far been cleverer than Gaddafi in covering his tracks, revelations of a possible Syrian role in the El Al attempt have raised the already high level of tension between Israel and Syria. Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told TIME last week that he believed "the decision about this crazy murderous act was taken at a relatively high level" in the Syrian government. Syria's support of terrorism "increased the danger" of a military confrontation, he warned, but he stressed that Israel does not intend to go to war with its neighbor...
...says Navy Secretary John Lehman. "They knew if they turned them on to guide their missiles, they would get a HARM down the throat." Nor was any defense mounted by the Libyan air force, whose pilots are notoriously poor night flyers. Five F-111s were assigned to hit Colonel Gaddafi's compound, and four of them dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. bombs. The hope, said a senior Administration official, was to "turn the barracks into dust." The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall, but did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi was probably...