Word: libya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of contention was whether Libya should be named directly. Mitterrand, who had denied permission for U.S. jets from Britain to overfly France on their way to Libya, did not offer the expected opposition. | "Everybody will know whom we're talking about," he said, "so why not?" Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose country has the closest economic and emotional ties to its former colony Libya, was perhaps the most reluctant to go along. While Craxi eventually conceded, his bitter pill of support was sugared by an agreement to add Italy, as well as Canada, to the regular sessions that...
...final document outlined specific steps that the seven nations agreed to apply against the governments of states that sponsor terrorism, singling out Libya. The accord includes limits on the size of diplomatic delegations, more stringent extradition arrangements and refusal to permit entry of any person expelled from another country for terrorist activities. At his Tokyo press conference, Reagan implied that the agreement actually 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...
...February poll--two months before the U.S. bombed Libya in retaliation for terrorist attacks--showed that one third of American travellers had cancelled planned trips abroad, Peresky said. West Germany, which had expected over one million American tourists, will "be lucky to get 400,000," he said...
...president's top aides declared that the Reagan administration had come away from the summit with much of what it had sought, including a statement of unity against terrorism, which singled out Moammar Khadafy's Libya "inparticular...
While the summit leaders earlier had approved a tough anti-terrorist statement singling out Libya as a state which sponsors terrorism, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone emphasized there was no mention of sanctions...