Word: moammar
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- Moammar Khadafy has urged Arab militants to pool their efforts for an "intensified struggle against imperialism" in Europe and the United States, high-ranking Palestinian officials said yesterday...
...REAGAN Administration has recently taken a few good steps in its professed campaign to fight terrorism by invoking strong economic sanctions against a principal actor in the terrorist scene--Libya and its leader, Moammar Khadafy. By contrast, our European allies appear to have learned nothing from such terrible events as the holiday airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. By their continued refusal to join the United States in concerted sanctions, European governments have doomed their own citizens and untold others to an increase in terrorist violence and a possible upsetting of the balance of power in the Arab world...
...time to turn the economic screws, when Libya has overspent its petrodollars and lost some of its oil market share, when Europe and the U.S. are strong. Europe should no longer subsidize Moammar Khadafy's near-insane drive for power. Our major allies fear the economic and military power of Palestinian fringe groups and the radical Arab states so much, and want to maintain their economic ties so badly, that their regional foreign policy has been nearly paralyzed. This is cause not just for disappointment that a golden opportunity is being lost, but for alarm that men like Khadafy...