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Moscow may believe that by waiting it can benefit if the U.S. fails to resolve the impasse in Lebanon. But there are signs that such a strategy may ultimately backfire. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi called East bloc ambassadors in for an angry lecture, warning them that "we have no answers to give our masses about the attitudes of our friends toward Zionist aggression." The effects of Moscow's reticence could also be far-reaching. Said a P.L.O. official bluntly: "Perhaps the Soviets feel they have not lost much in Lebanon, but I assure you they have lost something...
...erosion of Meese's authority was accelerated by a series of political blunders. While Reagan was vacationing in California last summer, Meese decided not to awaken him when U.S. jet fighters shot down two Libyan planes over the Gulf of Sidra, thereby creating the impression that Reagan was not running the shop. During the President's vacations this summer, either Baker or Deaver is set to help Meese at the California White House. Meese was also responsible in part for getting the President to endorse tax-exempt status for private segregated schools, a policy that Reagan...
...foreign agents and helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge in a seaside villa in Tripoli, beyond the reach of frustrated U.S. authorities. But last week he got careless, and federal agents managed to ensnare him in an ingenious trap set on three continents...
...quarry was worth the effort. In 1980 Wilson and Terpil (who is still at large and was last reported to be living in Beirut) were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington for supplying explosives to Libya, recruiting military personnel to run a training camp for Libyan terrorists and conspiring to kill a Gaddafi opponent living in exile in Egypt. Wilson allegedly hired former American military pilots to fly Libyan planes and helicopters, with some of them taking part in Tripoli's intervention in neighboring Chad in 1980. He is also suspected of peddling sophisticated American electronic equipment...
...Kirkpatrick's brusque manner has ruffled friend and foe alike, and occasionally dulls her effectiveness as a diplomat. Last year, for example, when 93 "nonaligned" countries signed a document criticizing the U.S. for, among other things, "aggression," after a pair of U.S. Navy jets shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, Kirkpatrick lashed out with a letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with...