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...southeastern French city of Lyons, a British regional director of the American firm Black & Decker was shot twice in the head. And on Saturday, in the same city, a bomb was set off at the local American Express office. While none of the attacks were necessarily mounted by Libyans, or even by Libyan sympathizers, all suggested that a new fury of terrorist activity had been unleashed...
...allies, Libya was equally at odds with a few of its friends. "The Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced on the opportunity to denounce Washington's "barbaric act of terrorism," adding...
Nothing has yet been heard of the five remaining American hostages in Lebanon. Washington sources speculate that the Americans are being held not by pro-Libyan extremists, but by members of Islamic Jihad, a pro-Iranian organization that is trying to secure the release of 17 imprisoned Arab terrorists in Kuwait. Islamic Jihad apparently considers the American hostages, while alive, a useful bargaining chip. Anxious to take no chances, however, both Washington and London evacuated dozens of their citizens from West Beirut last week, leaving only about 65 Westerners in the bloodstained Muslim-held area of the city...
...Damascus, however, maintains a mutual friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, which means that an attack on Syria could result in a superpower face-off. Though Administration officials later insisted that Reagan's remark had been misinterpreted , their statements left the impression that the U.S. had one standard for Libyan terrorism and another for atrocities perpetrated by stronger and less isolated countries...
More vexing to the U.S. is the position of its moderate Arab allies, who found themselves compelled by the air raid to rally behind their Libyan brothers. "The Arabs are more upset with the way the U.S. went about punishing Gaddafi than with the fact they did it," says one European diplomat at the U.N. "They would have preferred less obtrusive means." One possible gesture of conciliation that may be discussed at the Tokyo summit would be for Europe to enlist all other North African nations in the fight against terrorism. Explained one top Italian official: "Rather than allowing Gaddafi...