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...Reagan Administration would submit some valid evidence that would substantiate its claim of a Libyan hit team, then some observers wouldn't get the impression that the U.S. was attempting to isolate Libya...
...week's end police had found no trace of Dozier. Indeed, they have found none of the hideouts used in half a dozen kidnapings during the past three years by the brutally efficient Brigades. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb, who has been under tight security because of an alleged Libyan plan to assassinate him, cut short a visit to Genoa and returned to Rome to coordinate the U.S. side of the kidnap watch...
...Americans expected to depart by the end of next month were dutifully queuing up at the Tripoli International Airport for the flight home. Despite well-publicized U.S. reports that Gaddafi had dispatched hit men to assassinate Reagan, few believed that they were in any real danger of Libyan retaliation. For the occasion, Gaddafi eased usually tight restrictions on journalists to invite members of the foreign press to hear him, presumably, denounce Washington's claims. TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty flew to Tripoli for a firsthand look at the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (state of the masses...
...press conference, or rather the non-conference, was vintage Gaddafi. After two days of waiting, anxious revolutionary committeemen herded the press out of our hotels for a breathtaking, Libyan-style drive through the narrow streets of Tripoli. Lights blinking and horns blaring, the wild caravan raced to a walled compound where soldiers wielding submachine guns waved us through a gate flanked by two Russian T-72 tanks. For the fifth time since my arrival I was thoroughly searched. Inside the handsome government offices with beautifully crafted wooden Arabic arches, television crews set up their equipment on priceless rugs. Then...
...would be a mistake to believe that this suggests a softening in Gaddafi's view of the U.S. A senior Libyan official close to Gaddafi was willing to concede that reported assassinations of Libyan nationals in Europe last year were indeed sanctioned by the revolutionary committees and condoned by Gaddafi, as U.S. and Western intelligence sources have guessed. He also strenuously emphasized that the U.S. would be considered an enemy as long as it supports Israel. Libya steadfastly opposes both the existence of Israel and the U.S. role in making Israel "the American instrument in the region." He added...