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Word: libya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred J. Lechner Jr. said the bombs, packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets, "were intended for flesh and blood, not bricks and mortar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Jersey: Terrorist on The Turnpike | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...that any such role be a constructive one, and we would like to see them demonstrate this through action, not just words. One way would be to restore full diplomatic relations with Israel, to continue to permit greater emigration and to stop supporting states that support terrorism, such as Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want to Be the President's Man | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...School in Stockton, Calif. He stepped out, carrying a Chinese-made semiautomatic AK-47 rifle loaded with 75 bullets. Carved into the AK-47's stock were disconnected words: "freedom," "victory," "Hezbollah." He wore a flak jacket under a camouflage shirt jacket that bore other words, one misspelled: "PLO," "Libya," "death to the Great Satin." He had placed plugs in his ears to dull the sounds of what he was about to do. Patrick Purdy, 26, a drifter with guerrilla-warfare fantasies, had returned to the % school he attended 16 years earlier for a final, cowardly assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter in A School Yard | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

West Germany's Bundestag is normally an orderly parliament, courtly in its procedures and respectful of its leaders. But last week the Bundestag convened in an unaccustomed turmoil of accusation and recrimination over West Germany's role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Anger and Recrimination | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...questioning produced the Bonn government's clearest admission to date of the real purpose of the facility, which Libya still maintains is a pharmaceutical plant. Said Chancellery Chief of Staff Wolfgang Schauble: "On the basis of secret-service intelligence reports, we must conclude that the plant in Rabta is capable of producing chemical weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Anger and Recrimination | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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