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...mass meeting in Tripoli, Libya strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, took precisely that stance. With Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat present, Gaddafi declared that "Israel made it legitimate for us to destroy the Israel reactor...
...point, Begin was asked what would happen if the world condemned Israel. "Well, my friends," he said, "what can we do? We are an ancient people, we are used to it. We survived, we shall survive." And to the question of how Israel would react if Libya got the bomb, Begin replied, amid laughter, "Let us deal first with that meshuggener [Yiddish for lunatic], Saddam Hussein. With the other meshuggener [Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi], another time...
...million bbl. of crude oil daily, or 40% of all the output of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is intentionally forcing them lower. As longtime champions of steady, but moderate, rises in the price of oil, the Saudis have refused to mimic price hawks like Libya, Iran and Iraq. Instead, the Saudis for the past nine months have been pumping nearly 2 million bbl. per day above their self-imposed limit of 8.5 million bbl. daily in order to create an oil surplus and drive prices down...
...several Soviet T-55 tanks may have been shipped from Cuba to the leftist government in Nicaragua. Though officials admitted that the reports have not been confirmed, Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged last week that Nicaragua has been steadily stockpiling other arms from the Soviet Union, Cuba and Libya. Haig added: "We see no threat [to Nicaragua] that justifies increases of this size." Managua, however, feels that a buildup is necessary to counter the threat of an invasion by right-wing Nicaraguan guerrillas based in neighboring Honduras...
Though the oil ministers did much rhetorical waltzing during the two-day session, they were never able to break the deadlock that has for months gripped the cartel. Saudi Arabia has been pushing for pricing moderation against a group of price hard-liners led by Libya, Algeria, Iran and Iraq. Throughout the conference, Saudi Arabia's petroleum minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, offered to raise the price of Saudi crude, now selling for as little as $32 per bbl., to perhaps $34. In return, the Saudi negotiator insisted that the price hawks cut their prices from...