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...Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis, reporting from India and Pakistan, began studying the black market in nuclear technology in 1978, when he ran TIME's Cairo bureau. Says he: "That's when I first heard that Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's strongman, was trying to get a nuclear weapon." After his reassignment to South Asia three years ago, Brelis started to amass notes about developments on the Indian subcontinent. He found that some of the most reliable sources on the Pakistani nuclear program were Indian officials and scientists. (Fittingly, the Pakistanis were prime founts of information about Indian nuclear progress.) Says...
Libya's persistent bid for nuclear power vividly dramatizes the potential menace of proliferation. For almost 16 years, the country's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has been supporting international terrorism and devising schemes to worry the West. Were a nuclear weapon or two to fall into his hands, his capacity for troublemaking would increase intolerably. In 1981 Gaddafi told TIME that the atom bomb was "a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons." A few days later he reportedly told his top advisers that he planned to channel a substantial amount...
Pakistan reportedly received hundreds of millions of dollars for Project 706 from Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who in return was permitted to send his scientists to study Pakistan's enrichment advances. Nominally, the Libyan payments were made in return for Pakistani military assistance. Then, in 1977, after Zia came to power, Libya's connection with Project 706 was cut. Zia disliked and distrusted Gaddafi, and turned instead to Saudi Arabia for financial assistance. Saudi Arabia's payments were officially rendered in return for Pakistani military help...
...council also renewed diplomatic relations with Libya last week, having already asked Libyan exiles hostile to Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to leave the country. In return, Gaddafi, who has supported the 10,000 Sudanese rebels led by former Army Colonel John Garang, urged them to make peace with the new ; government in Khartoum. But the council has so far been unable to achieve a reconciliation with Garang, who said his rebels would continue to fight until the government is entirely in the hands of civilians. His intransigence may lessen, however. Said a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "There is already...
...million this year, more than any other African country except Egypt. At the same time, however, Suwar al Dahab promised to try to improve relations with two meddlesome neighbors, Libya and Ethiopia. As if hoping to enlist the new regime in his own cause, Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, made a point of being the first leader to recognize Sudan's junta. "Reagan has nothing to do with Sudan," the Libyan said. "If he interferes, his nose will...