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Controversy sticks as closely to Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi as the bodyguards who follow him everywhere. In the past it has stalked his political and military moves; now it is tracking him into the desert, where hydrology rather than revolutionary politics has captured his interest. In a scheme, large even by colonel's standards, Libya is gearing up to mine water from beneath the Sahara Desert and pipe it hundreds of miles to the Mediterranean littoral, where there is an increasingly serious water shortage. The program is not only hugely expensive but also controversial. Says Brian Smith...
...course, this is not the first time that Reagan has attempted to create a foe to explain away this country's social malaise. Only last spring the paradigm of evil was terrorism. But a few months and a couple of bombings of Libya later, he has come to realize that all of his empty bellowings will do nothing to stop TWA flights from being hijacked or Paris from becoming a veritable graveyard...
...runner-up destroyed any chance he had topull ahead with an ill-timed decision to stresshis differences of opinion with Kennedy, choosingto attack his opponent's support for the U.S.bombing of Libya...
Unfortunately -- unfortunately for Palestinians, Israelis and assorted innocents who wander into the crossfire -- the logic fails. To understand why, one must start by asking, Who are the terrorists? The major sponsors of Middle East terror are Iran, Syria and Libya. And its major practitioners are Islamic fundamentalists, pro-Syrian nationalists and Palestinian extremists. These groups and states are distinguished not just by their choice of means but by the nature of their end. And their end is not peace with Israel. It is peace with no Israel...
Several Middle East governments, including Libya, Syria and Iran, have long been suspected of smuggling weapons and bombs for terrorists into Europe in sealed diplomatic bags, which according to tradition are not opened for inspection by the host country. Italy, a country hard hit by terrorism, last week announced a new policy: from now on all incoming diplomatic bags will be screened by metal detectors...