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Rawlings, who must now confront corruption and bring the economy under control, is an admirer of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi; he once described Libya as a "revolutionary dream." Rawlings has replaced the Limann government with a Provisional National Defense Council and plans a support system of Libyan-style local "defense committees." U.S. and British officials fear that Rawlings may turn to Libya for help. But no political shift will solve the basic economic problems that are stirring the real unrest in a part of the world where ties with the West are already strained...
...things start going bad at home for the Administration, the public's attention is directed overseas; this time toward Libya [Dec. 21]. Why should anybody believe such talk of assassination teams when there hasn't even been any proof...
Muammar Gaddafi is a dangerous man. The alleged plot to kill President Reagan and other top officials is perfectly consistent with Gaddafi's character. But to be fair, I must disagree with Aberdeen University Professor Paul Wilkinson's comment, which implied that Libya is the first sovereign nation since World War II to plot the assassination of a head of state. For better or for worse, it is well documented that the CIA attempted more than once during the 1960s to eliminate Cuba's Fidel Castro...
...Reagan Administration would submit some valid evidence that would substantiate its claim of a Libyan hit team, then some observers wouldn't get the impression that the U.S. was attempting to isolate Libya...
...Middle East affords just one specific example of the 1981 tendency toward pointlessness. The United States, friend of democratic Israel, strikes a deal with authoritarian (or was it totalitarian) Saudi Arabia, avowed enemy of Israel, for the largest arms sale ever. The United States then makes hostility to authoritarian Libya the cornerstone of a vague Mideast policy. Democratic Israel grows distrustful of the democratic United States and takes provocative and uncalled-for action against authoritarian Syria. The United States then violates a treaty with Israel. With the two democratic friends at loggerheads, authoritarian Saudi Arabia undertakes rapprochement with authoritarian Libya...