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...Libyan Challenge...
...rank of major, a move that made them subject to military discipline and curbed their ability to speak out in public. Most important, Doe forced a showdown with Weh Syen, his staunchest critic in the P.R.C., who had publicly lashed out at Doe's decision to close the Libyan embassy when it renamed itself a "people's bureau" without Liberian authorization, and to expel nine of the 15 Soviet diplomats stationed in Monrovia on suspicion of spying...
...skeptical Congress on the promise that they would not be given any longer-range capability than their present 2,878 miles. The new sale also includes 1,177 Sidewinder missiles for the F-15s, the same deadly weapon that U.S. F-14 fighters used to shoot down two Libyan aircraft two weeks ago.* To refuel both the fighters and the AWACS, the Administration also proposes to throw in eight KC-707 tankers. Delivery of the package would not start until...
Exactly why a Libyan pilot did attack last week remained a matter of conjecture. After all, two score Libyan planes had entered the area and left peacefully before the clash, and at least eight more appeared later. The pilot who fired the Atoll missile must surely have known that he was facing superior American aircraft; in any case, at least two Libyan MiG-23s, much more advanced aircraft than the Su-22s, were in the area of the dogfight and did not intervene. Did Tripoli order the attack or did the pilot panic? Did he make a mistake of bravado...
...Gaddafi cannot be dismissed as a madman. "He comes across as cool, self-disciplined, shrewd," reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has interviewed the Libyan leader twice. "He radiates authority, confidence and self-control." Little is known about Gaddafi's private life except that he lives austerely, sometimes spending days meditating alone in the desert. In Libya,. Gaddafi's eclectic revolutionary ideology, which he calls the "Third International Theory," is summed up in his three-volume Green Book. He describes his theory as "an alternative to capitalist materialism and Communist atheism." Gaddafi has transformed Libya into...