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...White House. Reagan had nominated Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist to become Chief Justice, and Antonin Scalia to fill Rehnquist's seat, and they promised to be eminently successful nominations. In the months before, the Philippines and Haiti had gone his way, toward democracy. He had struck back at Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. He had flown to Geneva and spent five hours with the supposedly formidable Mikhail Gorbachev, doing well. None of this suggested the nursing-home President that some had envisioned...
...minimum requirement that they acknowledge Israel's right to exist. The Saudis have repeatedly irritated the U.S. by refusing to use their clout when it was most needed, whether to restrain Syrian excesses or pressure Arafat into coming to terms with Jordan. Though they have their own grievances against Muammar Gaddafi, most moderates joined the chorus of denunciation against the U.S. raid on Libyan targets...
...1970s and early 1980s. Fiat's profits increased 113% last year, to a record $884 million on sales of $18 billion. But the company has been unable to escape an increasingly embarrassing problem: about 15% of its stock is owned by Libya, and two representatives from the land of Muammar Gaddafi sit on Fiat's 25-member board...
...actually went further. "We didn't think it was perhaps useful," he said, "to put all of that into a public statement telling terrorists exactly what it was we intended to do." Shultz, ordinarily Buddha-like, was downright ebullient. When asked what the agreement would mean to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Shultz exclaimed, "The message is: 'You've had it, pal. You are isolated. You are recognized as a terrorist...
...allegations against Syria present a thorny policy problem for the U.S. After all, it was what the Reagan Administration called "irrefutable evidence" of Libyan complicity in the La Belle attack that led the U.S. to send its warplanes against Muammar Gaddafi's country. What if Syria were also involved? At a news conference last week, President Reagan said, "If we have the same kind of evidence with regard to other countries, they will be subject to the same treatment...