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...fact that Gaddafi is willing to take the risk indicates how much Libya needs water. The Libyan government calls the scheme the Great Man-Made River Project, while Gaddafi's critics have dubbed it the Great Madman River. Just who is right is as difficult to predict at this stage as the colonel's next political move...
...last effort to portray Kennedy as unworthyof his name, he repeated Roosevelt's early mistakeof levelling an ill-founded and belligerentaccusation, hoping the candidate would reactunsuitably. He chose a television debate toconfront Kennedy with the fact that a subsidiaryof his Citizens Energy Corporation had limitedfinancial relations with three Libyan banks...
...away by police, "I am a Palestinian commando!" But in the crazy-quilt language of contemporary terrorism, that still left a lot unexplained. Early in the course of the hijacking, an anonymous Arab called a Western news agency office in Nicosia, Cyprus, and claimed responsibility for the Libyan Revolutionary Cells, a previously unknown group. Denials came almost instantaneously from Radio Tripoli and from Gaddafi, who was attending the nonaligned conference in Zimbabwe. Next, an obscure Shi'ite organization calling itself Jundullah, or Soldiers of God, announced it was responsible. Most Western intelligence agencies were skeptical...
EGYPTAIR. Last December three Arab terrorists accused of belonging to the Libyan-supported Abu Nidal group diverted a Boeing 737 to Malta. After five passengers were shot and the captain pleaded for aid, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered a commando raid. In the attack, 58 of the 79 hostages left on the plane died. More than 40 were killed by burns or smoke inhalation from fires that the commando attack ignited...
Flamboyantly garbed in a white cloak, purple shirt and black jacket, Gaddafi paused at one point during his speech to allow young Libyan women dressed in battle fatigues to chant cheerleader-style, "Down, down, U.S.A." Announcing that he planned to consult with his Libyan "people's committees" about withdrawing from the nonaligned, he called the summit a mere exchange of courtesies. "We meet," he said. "We eat together, we travel long distances and laugh together. In the cause of freedom we should not be nice to each other...