Word: libya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NICOSIA, Cyprus--A jet carrying Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief Yasser Arafat disappeared in a sandstorm 15 minutes before it was to have landed in Libya on a flight from Sudan, officials in his office in Tunis, Tunisia reported...
...seemed too good to be true and, sure enough, it was. As the United Nations Security Council prepared early last week to vote on sanctions against Libya, that country's ambassador announced that his government would hand over to the Arab League two Libyan intelligence agents suspected of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. The understanding was that the two would be passed on for trial in either the U.S. or Britain. But when an Arab League delegation called in Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pronounced his ambassador "incorrect" and sent...
...long ago, Gaddafi was the world's most public promoter of terrorism. Now he substitutes hypocrisy for defiance. He has, for example, closed some well- known terrorist training camps in Libya -- while allowing less publicized ones to keep running. Nonetheless, the fact that even Gaddafi no longer espouses their cause openly illustrates how terrorists, like everyone else, have had their world turned upside down by political upheaval...
Gaddafi's chicanery, though, appeared to win him only a brief delay. Without ! waiting for the World Court's ruling, the Security Council is expected this week to adopt sanctions directing U.N. members to break all airline links with Libya, stop all sales of arms to that country and expel most Libyan diplomats. Such penalties, and Gaddafi's desperate efforts to escape them, signal that the civilized world's terrorist counteroffensive has made much more progress than is often generally recognized...
...based on extremist Russian nationalism. This could trigger war among the former Soviet republics, force the West to rearm, threaten Eastern Europe's security, relieve pressures in China for political reform and lead to sales of Russian arms and military technology to rogue states such as Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and North Korea...