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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Gaddafi's Green Book describes the U.S. and the Soviet Union as equally egregious imperialists, Gaddafi has made Libya into a Soviet military client, albeit one that even the Kremlin has trouble controlling. The Soviets are his principal supplier of weaponry, and he had purchased more than $12 billion worth of Soviet hardware by the early 1980s. The U.S., he says, is the "devil," the Soviets are a "friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaddafi: Obsessed By a Ruthless, Messianic Vision | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...perplexed as everyone else about what might happen and what, if anything, they ought to do. "There have been no guarantees concerning action or nonaction on the part of the Soviet Union," said Valery Sukhin, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, at week's end. Georgi Arbatov, a top Kremlin adviser on American affairs, growled on U.S. television that Moscow had no deal to defend Gaddafi against the U.S. and added that the Libyan leader does not always tell the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting Gaddafi | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...bring word that Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze was prepared to come to Washington for talks with Shultz on May 14 and 15 to lay the groundwork for a summit conference later this year. Dobrynin assured the President that while Gorbachev was setting no "preconditions" for the meeting, the Kremlin wanted to know ahead of time--presumably by prior agreement--what could be accomplished. The U.S. reply: fair enough. At his press conference the following evening, President Reagan sidestepped questions about recent Soviet criticism of his policies. "We're trying to go forward," he maintained. "We're planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West There Will Be a Summit | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Dobrynin last week spelled out the Kremlin's current views in a series of three meetings: a 90-minute breakfast Monday with Shultz and National Security Adviser John Poindexter, a 75-minute session Tuesday in the Oval Office with the President and his top aides and a follow-up discussion with Shultz on Wednesday. Dobrynin described Soviet "confusion" over U.S. motives toward the Soviet Union, citing nuclear tests, Administration efforts to reduce the number of Soviet diplomats at the United Nations and U.S. maneuvers in the Black Sea. American officials, in turn, expressed "confusion" over such Soviet activities as supplying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West There Will Be a Summit | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Moscow, in a possibly ominous development, the Soviet Union summoned foreign ambassadors and formally asserted its right to free passage through the seas and air around Soviet-aligned Libya, a move that might signal Kremlin intentions to move naval vessels or other military equipment into the tense Mediterranean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Strike Back Around the World | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

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