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Tension between the U.S. and Libya continued last week in the aftermath of the Dec. 27 attacks at Rome and Vienna airports by Palestinian terrorists supported by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Two Libyan MiG-25 fighters intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane to the north of the Gulf of Sidra, then darted back to Libyan airspace before F/ A-18 jets from the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea could reach the scene. While Gaddafi condemned Ronald Reagan as a "Hitler No. 2, " the Pentagon expressed concern about increasingly overt intelligence-gathering activities in the area by Soviet ships and aircraft...
That there are fights over soap and bananas in Libya, which has a population of only 3.6 million and a per capita gross national product of about $8,000 (vs. $9,000 in Britain), is the result of both softening demand for petroleum and poor economic planning. Oil revenues are down from $22 billion in 1980 to an anticipated $8 billion this year. "The cash-flow problem is hurting," said a Western diplomat in Tripoli. "It is like taking a 60% salary cut and trying to keep up with the payments on the house and car." Some construction contracts have...
...built into the barracks gates, which are further protected by concrete slabs that force drivers to zigzag slowly to the entrance. Inside are more tanks surrounding Gaddafi's Bedouin tent, into which he will often invite guests. "It is more natural here," he explained recently before proudly proclaiming that Libya was pretty close to being a Utopia. Surrounded by modern-day Bedouin creature comforts, including three telephones, five electric heaters, a TV set and a video recorder, the colonel seemed more than a little cut off from the realities beyond the barracks gates...
...rally seemed a delayed reaction to the declining value of the dollar, down more than 20% since last February. Investors may also have bought bullion out of fear that hostilities might break out between Libya...
WORLD: Western Europe begins to close ranks against Libya's Gaddafi 28 Increasingly determined to act against terrorism, West European countries start kicking out Libyan diplomats and students. Kurt Waldheim's wartime record dogs him into the closing days of the Austrian presidential campaign. South Africa rescinds pass laws for blacks. The Duchess of Windsor, the American who won a British King's love and cost him his throne, dies...