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...joint security-intelligence team prepared a list of five targets. First on the list was the Bab al Azizia army compound, which serves as Gaddafi's command center and residence. "We hit Gaddafi's barracks because it's the nerve center for his command structure and headquarters of his loyalist guard," says a top national security aide. There is little doubt that Azizia was also targeted in the hope that the Colonel would be very much at home and killed or injured in the attack. Using the military euphemism for civilian casualties, one Administration official deadpanned, "If Gaddafi had been...
Long before the Socialist delegates began filing into the cavernous Parc des Expositions on an island in the Garonne River, the battle lines on how best to resolve the party's problems had been drawn. On one side was a loyalist camp, known as the Mitterrandistes, whose advocates argue that the Socialists must not abandon their original constituency on the left. The loyalists are opposed to a coalition with centrist groups, even if the Socialists take a drubbing in next year's elections and want to leave the door open for a revival of the old alliance with the Communists...
...departure of the wiry, chain-smoking D'Aubuisson was announced at the annual party congress in San Salvador. It was engineered, according to one ARENA loyalist, by party leaders anxious to project a "more palatable image." D'Aubuisson was replaced by Alfredo Cristiani, a 37-year-old graduate of Georgetown University's business school who has held prominent posts in El Salvador's coffee and cotton growers' associations...
Although three French loyalist parties won nearly 61% of the popular vote, their strength was concentrated in and around the capital of Noumea, which constitutes only one of the island's four electoral districts. The radical pro-independence party of Melanesian natives, or Kanaks, gained administrative control of the other three districts. In Paris, conservative opposition parties promised that if they wrest control of the French National Assembly from the Socialists next March, New Caledonians will be asked simply: Do you want to remain French...
...President could not afford to see his moral authority jeopardized in the eyes of an electorate already largely disenchanted with Socialist leadership. As Mitterrand attempted to defuse the Greenpeace scandal, his Defense Minister, + Charles Hernu, resigned, a tacit admission of French wrongdoing in the affair. Paul Quiles, a Mitterrand loyalist who had been Minister of Town Planning, Housing and Transport, was quickly named to replace him. In addition, Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, head of the French foreign espionage agency, was summarily sacked after he refused to answer pointed questions about secret- service missions to New Zealand...