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...airliner that landed without casualties. West German police are searching for any connection between this group and the Pan Am tragedy. "The group is pro-Syrian, anti-Arafat and anti-P.L.O.," contends a U.S. State Department fact sheet. "It has strong ties to Syria, although Libya has also long supported...
...scuttle Arafat's Middle East peace moves. "Such an act of terrorism by Abu Nidal would be a message to the U.S. and a slap in the face for Yasser Arafat," said Ian Geldard, director of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism. Allied with Libya, Abu Nidal would presumably have access to Muammar Gaddafi's ample supply of Semtex, a plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia...
WASHINGTON--Photographic evidence shows Libya lied when it claimed the two planes that the United States shot down over the Mediterranean Sea were unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, the Reagan Administration said yesterday...
...governments have been reluctant to exert on the Sudanese government the kind of concerted pressure they applied to neighboring Ethiopia when the Marxist regime there was hindering famine relief in another civil war. They fear criticism would strain their fragile ties to a government strategically placed between Ethiopia and Libya and only strengthen the hand of the fundamentalist National Islamic Front, an important power in the Khartoum coalition...
Reaction to the U.S. decision from othernations was largely negative. Israeli leaderspraised it, but Algeria, Egypt, France, Libya,Norway and Sweden were among nations whichprotested the decision. Italy summoned a U.S.Embassy official to explain the decision