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...inquisitional setting that his predecessors have been spared. The White House has waived the Executive privilege that normally protects National Security Advisers from congressional summonses, and Brzezinski has agreed to testify before the special Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating Billy Carter's ties with Libya...
...Libya and Syria agree to tie the knot in the latest merger...
Since it was created in 1975, the center has received nearly $2.4 million in gifts from seven other Arab nations. Most controversial was a $750,000 gift from Libya...
...explanation left many Senators unsatisfied, as did Civiletti's defense of his decision not to pass on to Justice Department investigators a report in mid-April from CIA Director Stansfield Turner that Billy was negotiating with Libya on behalf of Charter Oil Co. and that the Libyans might be making a payment to Billy...
...another arena of Middle Eastern affairs, a curious courtship was taking place between Libya and Syria. On the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of his country's revolution, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi unexpectedly proposed an "immediate" merger with Syria. Equally unexpected was the almost instantaneous reply of Syrian President Hafez Assad: "We extend our arm to meet with yours in unity." Syria is at loggerheads with two of its Arab neighbors, Iraq and Jordan, and is desperately short of cash, so a union with Libya might conceivably work to its benefit. But such merger proposals, offered in the name...