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Nonetheless, Gaddafi remains fascinated by his Bedouin heritage and feels that all Libyan men should be ready to answer his call to arms. He often sets up his own tent in the middle of the Bab al Azizia barracks, on the road to the airport. Tank bays are built into the barracks gates, which are further protected by concrete slabs that force drivers to zigzag slowly to the entrance. Inside are more tanks surrounding Gaddafi's Bedouin tent, into which he will often invite guests. "It is more natural here," he explained recently before proudly proclaiming that Libya was pretty...
WORLD: Western Europe begins to close ranks against Libya's Gaddafi 28 Increasingly determined to act against terrorism, West European countries start kicking out Libyan diplomats and students. Kurt Waldheim's wartime record dogs him into the closing days of the Austrian presidential campaign. South Africa rescinds pass laws for blacks. The Duchess of Windsor, the American who won a British King's love and cost him his throne, dies...
...across Europe, Libyans suddenly found themselves under diplomatic fire last week. West Germany told more than half the 41 representatives stationed at Libya's People's Bureau in Bonn that they had seven days to leave the country. Britain deported 22 Libyan students suspected of activism and informed more than 300 others that they would have to leave shortly. Spain demanded that eleven Libyans quit the country. The Italians arrested a former Libyan diplomat for plotting to kill U.S. Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb and announced a 20% cut in Libya's diplomatic corps. And the French expelled four Libyans...
Thus did the shadow war against the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi and the terrorists it sponsors move to a diplomatic front. Meeting for the third time in just eight days, the twelve nations of the European Community voted to expel all Libyan diplomats beyond the "minimum necessary" and to curtail the movements of those who remained. They further agreed that a Libyan declared persona non grata in one country would be unwelcome...
...response to the concerted campaign by their antagonists, Libya and its friends quickly mounted a counteroffensive. Gaddafi called Reagan a "new Nazi," and a Libyan official claimed that bombing attacks in Europe were being prepared by CIA agents and their Israeli colleagues to make his country look bad. Within 24 hours of that unlikely charge, an explosive went off in central London, outside a six-story building where both British Airways and American Express maintain offices. Luckily, the detonation came in the quiet moments before dawn. Had it occurred a few hours later, said the police, it would have caused...