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While the sudden air strike strained relations among America's allies, Libya was equally at odds with a few of its friends. "The Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced...
...Mansur Hasi. Inside Hasi's apartment, West German detectives found what appeared to be a sketch of the La Belle discothèque, where an explosion three weeks earlier had killed two people and left 230 wounded. They also discovered that Hasi was Hindawi's brother, that he had visited Libya at least once since moving to Berlin in 1975, and that even though unemployed, he was inexplicably in possession of large amounts of American dollars...
Despite the Administration's tough policy toward Libya, its position on other countries linked to terrorism, particularly Syria and Iran, sometimes appeared confused. In an interview with Washington columnists, President Reagan seemed to indicate that the U.S. was ready to strike against those countries if it had evidence tying them to terrorist acts. In fact, evidence gathered by British officials in the thwarted El Al bombing has pointed toward Syrian involvement. Damascus, however, maintains a mutual friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, which means that an attack on Syria could result in a superpower face-off. Though Administration officials later...
Even in the fight against Libya, not all the West European allies were yet of one mind. Greece, for example, continues to maintain that it has not been shown "tangible proof of Gaddafi's hand in recent terrorist attacks. Though persuaded at last to support the European Community resolution, the Greeks have so far refused to expel any Libyans. That leaves 42 of Libya's so-called diplomats in Athens, as against two Greek envoys in Tripoli. "We want to begin a dialogue with Libya," said one Greek government official, "which is more than can be said for the Americans...
...Only in Libya did passions seem as undivided as ever last week. Though rumors that Gaddafi was now part of a five-man ruling junta appeared to be unfounded, the colonel did seem shaken by the attack. Yet even as life in Tripoli returned to normal, so too did its regime's posturings. In the hope of milking their unusual status as victims for all its propaganda value, the Libyans posted grisly photographs of civilians, many of them children, killed by the raid. They also treated foreign journalists to carefully controlled tours of nonmilitary areas that had been damaged, they...