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...strings from Carinthia, but the low-key Freedom Party Vice Chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer won acceptance as a surprisingly moderate voice in international affairs. Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, 33, tamed the budget. Their achievements, says Sichrovsky, made Haider restless and resentful. He sought support in unlikely places, visiting Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. He also rallied hard-liners within his party to press for purist policies, from opposition to E.U. enlargement to insistence on tax cuts. It was this last drive, in the face of efforts by his own ministers to raise money for catastrophic...
During the past decade, the Abu Nidal Organization, splintered by internal feuds, grew quiet. Abu Nidal was said to be seriously ill. In 1998, after proving too onerous a political burden to his host, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, he resurfaced in Egypt. The next year, he moved to Iraq, relying on his fragile alliance with Saddam Hussein...
LIBYA Compensation Once the West's enemy No.1, Libyan leader Muammar Gad-dafi may soon be helping U.S. President George W. Bush's "war on terrorism." In talks with British Foreign Office minister Mike O'Brien, Gad-dafi promised to help fight al-Qaeda. He also sought assurances that Libya would not be pursued in the courts if it accepted responsibility for blowing up a U.S. airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. Libya said it was ready to pay compensation in return for the end of U.N. sanctions...
...operation during the OAU days, it is argued, genocide and civil wars in countries like Sierra Leone, Angola and Rwanda might have been avoided. The number one spoiler in the African Union and the factor that probably gives Western observers the greatest cause for concern is Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Already smarting at the way his dream of a "United States of Africa" - with himself as President - was upstaged by the A.U.'s formation, Gaddafi was also dismayed at another recent bit of scene stealing: the launch of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an economic initiative...
...billion Total sum Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi reportedly says he'll pay 270 families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103 if the U.S. and U.N. agree to lift sanctions against his country...