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...more radical states, such as Libya, Syria, Algeria and South Yemen, have lost prestige in the Arab world as a result of their failure to aid the Palestinians. Says Peter Duignan, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution: "The image of Arabs standing together has been shattered." The Iraqis were particularly angry at Syria's Hafez Assad and Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, both for their "betrayal" of the P.L.O. and for their support of Iran in the gulf war. Since that conflict began 23 months ago, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has moved away from...
Last month Gaddafi issued a public message to the Palestinian leaders promising that Libya "will place all of its resources at the disposal of Syria and the Palestinian resistance." Those resources have turned out to be mostly words of encouragement, plus some fraternal advice from Gaddafi: "I advise you to commit suicide rather than to accept disgrace. Your suicide will immortalize the cause of Palestine for future generations. Your blood is the fuel of the revolution. . . Let suicide be the priority. It is the road to victory...
...gathering had long been ballyhooed as a triumph for Libya's radical Muammar Gaddafi, his chance to gain the international respect that he has always longed to acquire. Instead, the 19th annual four-day summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity, scheduled to begin last week in Tripoli, was an embarrassing failure for the Libyan leader...
...ever since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat expelled an estimated 17,000 Soviet technical advisers and military personnel in 1972. After the 1973 war, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger effectively shut the Soviets out of all Middle East negotiations. By supplying weapons to the P.L.O., Syria, Iraq, Libya and Algeria, Moscow tried to regain a voice in the region's affairs, but with little success. Ominously, the Soviet Union has shifted its attention to Iran, which has been told it will have Moscow's support in any future fighting with Iraq (see WORLD...
...quarry was worth the effort. In 1980 Wilson and Terpil (who is still at large and was last reported to be living in Beirut) were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington for supplying explosives to Libya, recruiting military personnel to run a training camp for Libyan terrorists and conspiring to kill a Gaddafi opponent living in exile in Egypt. Wilson allegedly hired former American military pilots to fly Libyan planes and helicopters, with some of them taking part in Tripoli's intervention in neighboring Chad in 1980. He is also suspected of peddling sophisticated American electronic equipment...