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...while, another dispute loomed, involving two rival delegations from Chad. One represented former President Goukouni Oueddei, who had seized power with Libyan military backing in November 1981. The other was led by current President Hissene Habre, who was ousted by Oueddei but regained power in a counter-coup five months ago. Gaddafi demanded that the opposition Oueddei group be seated as the official Chadian delegation...
...Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi has been accused of many things, but lack of gall is not one of them. In August, he grandly convoked the 19th annual summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. For Gaddafi it was to be a major event: according to a decision made at the 1981 summit in Nairobi, the Tripoli gathering would confirm his installation as O.A.U. chairman for one year. But Gaddafi alienated a number of moderate African states by helping to engineer the recognition of the Polisario guerrilla movement, which opposes Morocco...
...lawyers called the tall, gaunt ex-CIA agent "the spy who was left out in the cold." His multimillion-dollar gunrunning operation to Libyan terrorists, they argued, was nothing more than a clever cover for his real mission: ferreting out Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi's secrets for his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. But the Government prosecutor in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours...
...week, the prosecution laid out an impressive case. Prosecutor Theodore Greenberg elicited the most damaging testimony from Wilson's former associates. His girlfriend and manager of his Geneva office, Roberta Barnes-code-named "Wonder Woman" in the operation-said that Wilson did send the U.S. Government information about Libyan plans to build an atomic bomb, but only after he was already under indictment. Peter Goulding, another former aide, testified that Wilson had threatened to kill Goulding's wife if Goulding returned to the U.S. and cooperated with investigators. He also entertained the jury with a vivid description...
When Terpil and Wilson ordered him to procure a lightweight guided antiaircraft missile for Libya, Mulcahy balked. In the firm's files he found startling evidence of international terrorism-for-hire, including a plan to train and equip hitmen in the Libyan desert. Mulcahy quit and went to the authorities. The Government's investigation of Terpil and Wilson was frustratingly slow. But Mulcahy, often obliged to live in hiding and disguise, persevered, talking for hundreds of hours to federal investigators and providing them with incriminating documents taken from Wilson's office...