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...held by Iranian authorities. Three years later he again intervened for Brit ain, this time in Libya, where four British citizens had been jailed, unwitting pawns in an ugly political duel between the governments in London and Tripoli. Following a Christmas Day meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan strongman's Bedouin tent, the Britons were freed. In September 1985 Waite played a still unspecified role in the release of a U.S. hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, who had been held for 16 months in Lebanon...
Dahl, 6 ft., 6 in. tall, then found himself cramped in the cockpit of a Tiger Moth in Nairobi, Kenya, where he had enlisted in the R.A.F. After training, he was given an unfamiliar Gloster Gladiator and wrong directions to fly to a base in the Libyan Desert. He ran out of gas, crashed and spent six months recovering in Egypt. By the time he got back in the air, this time in a spiffy new Hurricane over Greece, the Luftwaffe dominated the skies. Dahl piloted one of a dozen planes sent up to meet some 200 enemy aircraft...
...Britain's second break with an Arab country in two and a half years. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government ended relations with Libya in April 1984 after gunfire from the Libyan Embassy killed a London policewoman during a demonstration by Libyan exiles...
...Journal also reported that the U.S was considering a joint action with France to drive Libyan troops out of Chad. According to the Post, a State Department planning paper about the deception campaign had suggested that a scheduled trip to Chad by a U.S. general "provides an opportunity for disinformation to reach Gaddafi that the U.S. and France are developing contingency plans for a 'Chad Option.' " Finally, the Journal claimed that the "Sea Wind" exercises, long-planned U.S.-Egyptian maneuvers under way in the Mediterranean at the time of its Aug. 25 story, "are intended to keep the Libyans...
...Reagan-appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which supplied $600,000 of the program's $3.5 million budget. The series, she charges, "frequently degenerates into anti-Western diatribe" and fails to meet NEH's "standards of balance and objectivity." Among her complaints: a sympathetic portrayal of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. At Cheney's insistence, NEH's name was removed from the show's credits, and a request for funds to promote the show was denied...