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While the world was keeping a wary eye out for a Libyan attempt on President Reagan or some other U.S official, terror struck from a different, and unexpected, quarter. A few grim facts came in an anonymous telephone call to the ANSA news agency in Milan: "This is the Red Brigades. We have kidnaped Brigadier General James Dozier. A communiqué will follow...
...rebuffs. They must sting. Gaddafi has attempted to work out ambitious mergers of Libya with Tunisia, Egypt and Syria. His present link with Syria is largely symbolic and may well collapse, as the others did, in recrimination. In 1973 Gaddafi ordered an Egyptian submarine, temporarily under his command in Libyan waters, to torpedo the Queen Elizabeth II, which was carrying hundreds of Jews from Southampton to Haifa to celebrate Israel's 25th anniversary. Sadat, who was then still on speaking terms with Gaddafi, countermanded the order. Over the past decade, Gaddafi has continually tried to get hold of an atom...
Gaddafi preaches democracy; he practices dictatorship. In April 1980, he ordered all Libyan dissidents living abroad to return home or face "liquidation." By the end of that year, at least twelve Libyans had been hunted down and murdered in England, Italy, West Germany, Greece and Lebanon by Gaddafi-anointed hit squads. Most of the victims were little-known private citizens, and it is doubtful that they posed a threat to Tripoli. Instead, their killings were presumably intended to set an example. So Byzantine are Gaddafi's methods that when Libyan Hitman Abdel Nabih Swaiti, who was tried and convicted...
These relations were virtually broken off when a mob sacked and burned the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in December 1979, ostensibly to show support for Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini. The following spring, President Carter expelled four Libyan diplomats who were accused of threatening anti-Gaddafi students and exiles in the U.S. Then, after the embarrassing disclosure that his brother Billy had accepted $220,000 in loans from Gaddafi's government, Carter launched a State Department study of U.S. relations with Libya...
...Middle East, the Reagan Administration stepped up the study of diplomatic and military options. Meanwhile, Gaddafi was quietly trying to repair his frayed relations with Washington. He sent Reagan a message of congratulations on his Inauguration; no reply was made. In May, the Administration ordered the closing of the Libyan "people's bureau" (as Gaddafi had renamed his embassy in Washington) and the expulsion of its remaining diplomats. Reason: "Libyan provocations and misconduct, including support for international terrorism...