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...sounded like the plot of an international thriller, as frightening as the fictional tale told in the Collins-Lapierre bestseller in which Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi threatens the U.S. with nuclear blackmail. According to reports received by the U.S. Government, hit teams had been dispatched by Libya to assassinate President Ronald Reagan and other top American leaders. As increasing fragments of evidence about the plot became public last week?some chilling, some bizarre, some literally beyond belief?Washington found itself embroiled in an international confrontation without precedent. If Administration reactions were confusing and contradictory, so were the facts from which...
...situation as "a very serious threat." Said a high law-enforcement officer about the terrorists: "They want to make a sensation. If they can't get the President, they are apparently under instructions to kill anyone close to him." Said Reagan, talking about the threats from Libya: "I think in view of the record, you can't dismiss them out of hand." Nevertheless, the President added, "they're not going to change my life much...
...going into seclusion to weigh six possible guilty verdicts, the jurors in a Fort Collins, Colo., courthouse had every right to be confused. At issue were such wispy questions as whether Eugene Tafoya, 45, a much decorated former Green Beret, was working for the CIA or, in effect, for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, when Tafoya knocked on the door of Libyan Student Faisal Zagallai, 36, in Fort Collins on Oct. 14,1980, and left the outspoken anti-Gaddafi dissident lying on the floor with two bullet wounds in his head...
While Tafoya admitted working with Wilson in Libya, he said he did so as an undercover agent for the CIA, which understandably wanted to know what was going on in Gaddafi's inner circles. Tafoya's lawyer added another layer of complexity by suggesting that Wilson, too, might have been working under "deep cover" in Libya for the CIA. Tafoya's real mission in approaching Zagallai, the defense claimed, was to carry a message from the CIA asking the student to tone down his rhetoric on Middle East issues. But several jurors said after the verdict that...
...revolution in July 1979 to $3.5 billion today. Per capita income has dropped from $300 a year to less than $200. Nicaragua faces a balance of payments deficit next year of $450 million. The Sandinistas have been borrowing to the limit from Mexico, the Soviet Union and, most recently, Libya. Says one Western diplomatic observer: "They say no country really ever goes bankrupt, but no country has quite had Nicaragua's experience before...