Word: muammar
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What a pity that the Clinton administration won't let Louis Farrakhan accept either a $1 billion gift or the $250,000 that went along with the human-rights award he got from Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi last week. Unless the Nation of Islam leader manages to overturn the decision in court, we'll never know how he would have behaved as the world's first black billionaire flake. Assuming Gaddafi actually intended to hand over the loot, it would have been quite a show...
...case of Pan Am Flight 103, it took nine days just to determine that the disaster was caused by a bomb. Identifying the alleged culprits--who were eventually found to have been sponsored by Libya--took an additional three years of work. And because of protection from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the suspects were never even brought to trial. Unlike the 270 people they are accused of murdering, those men are walking the earth today...
...Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is among the great manipulative villains of our time. Your article warns us that he is building the "world's largest underground chemical-weapons plant" to produce nerve gas [WORLD, April 1]. Industrialized and developing countries are equally threatened by megalomaniacs playing with the most destructive gadgets man has ever created. Democracy is threatened, and the superpowers seem as powerless as banana republics. HELENE THIBAULT Ottawa...
...Langley, Virginia, what they saw on the video screen took their breath away. It was a huge underground chamber of several thousand square feet, almost three stories high. Two years earlier, Washington had succeeded in an international campaign to close down Libya's chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Now Muammar Gaddafi was building a second nerve-gas plant near the town of Tarhunah just like the one at Rabta. Only this time it was carved into the side of a mountain where no spy-satellite eyes could see the factory inside and no American jets could destroy...
What else can be made of Farrakhan's sucking up to Muammar Gaddafi, who, the official Libyan news agency reports, pledged that Libya will give the Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without...