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...there was no evidence that the Soviets were supplying the Syrians with new weapons during the confrontation, there was clear proof last week that they were giving them to the Palestinians in Lebanon. The Libyans were acting as middlemen in the deal; in the past three weeks they have sent in some 52 trucks loaded with Soviet-made rocket launchers, 130-mm artillery pieces and four-barrel, radar-controlled antiaircraft guns. In addition, about a month ago, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi gave the Palestinians $75 million as a gift...
After the attacks, Begin renewed Israel's charge that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who signed a merger agreement with Syria last year, had sent men and equipment into Lebanon to aid the Palestinians. According to sources in Beirut, between 400 and 500 Libyan officers -not troops-have arrived in Lebanon over the past two weeks to act as advisers. The Libyans were sent in to instruct Pal estine Liberation Organization commandos of every group except Fatah, the largest, and some left-wing militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi could not have appeared more at ease last week as he sipped orange soda in an official guest house during a one-hour interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott in the central Libyan desert city of Sebha. Indeed, the mercurial strongman's imperturbability seemed to be in almost studied contrast to the erratic policies that have increasingly made Libya a focal point of international controversy and contention. Only hours after the interview, Israel charged that Libyan-operated SA9 missiles had been fired at Israeli reconnaissance planes from Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon (see preceding story...
Recently Gaddafi has had to contend with increasing opposition to his regime among Libyans studying and working abroad, including several of his former cabinet ministers. In response to such dissent, according to officials of several governments, Libyan "death squads" have murdered Gaddafi foes in Rome, Athens and London. Gaddafi's agents have been accused of masterminding the attempted assassination last October of Faisal Zagallai, 35, a Libyan student living in Colorado. Eugene Tafoya, a former U.S. Green Beret, has been charged with the shooting, which he denies. At home Gaddafi has little trouble stifling potential opposition, mostly by retaining...
...have heard that an American made the attempt on the life of this student, and we have asked for an investigation into this incident. Anyhow, Libyans are being exposed to many difficulties in the U.S. There have been attempts on their lives and pressure on them to go into the service of the Central Intelligence Agency. In fact we are seriously thinking of not sending any more Libyan students to the U.S. In the face of these pressures, we may also have to withdraw the students who are already there...