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Ever since the Reagan Administration marked Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi as a foremost enemy, the U.S. pur chase of Libyan oil has seemed strangely inconsistent. Oil is virtually Libya's only source of wealth, and the radical strong man has been using profits to train terror ists. One consideration was that some 2,500 Americans in Libya could have been seized by Gaddafi, creating an Iran-style hostage crisis...
When U.S. fighters downed a pair of Libyan jets last August, two choruses sounded in counterpoint: "Hooray! We've finally put Viet Nam behind us!" and, from the other side of the stage, "Beware! The Gulf of Sidra may be another Gulf of Tonkin!" (thus the onstage, with clanking chains, the ghost of the 1964 naval skirmish off the coast of Viet Nam, which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext to escalate American involvement there...
Rawlings, who must now confront corruption and bring the economy under control, is an admirer of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi; he once described Libya as a "revolutionary dream." Rawlings has replaced the Limann government with a Provisional National Defense Council and plans a support system of Libyan-style local "defense committees." U.S. and British officials fear that Rawlings may turn to Libya for help. But no political shift will solve the basic economic problems that are stirring the real unrest in a part of the world where ties with the West are already strained...
...Libyan leader Moammer Khadafy flees into hiding. Before he leaves, he decries President Reagan for sending "roving NATO hit squads" after him. "He is talking nonsense. He has no proof. Anyone who would believe him is nuts," Reagan says...
Subsequently, Newton decided that the man could have been Ali Chafic, one of the team of alleged Libyan hitmen believed to be planning to kill President Ronald Reagan or other high American officials. Newton made that identification after studying a drawing of Chafic circulated by the U.S. Government...