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...fashionable European streets, mines strewn in the Red Sea, even the awards ceremony for Nobel Peace Prizewinner Bishop Desmond Tutu disrupted by a bomb threat. From the elegant Libyan embassy on a leafy London square, a mad spray of gunfire aimed at marching dissidents killed a young British policewoman. Muammar Gaddafi's murderous schemes embarrassed him when Egyptian authorities faked the death of a former Libyan Prime Minister marked for extinction by Tripoli. Gaddafi took responsibility for the assassination that never...
...President's attempt to negotiate with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi for the withdrawal of Libyan troops from Chad led to a fiasco that has hurt Mitterrand's credibility in the one field where his competence had gone virtually unquestioned. After the French withdrew 3,000 paratroopers from Chad between last September and November, Mitterrand discovered that, contrary to the agreement with Gaddafi, a substantial number of Libyan troops remained. A chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that...
Over the past four months he had signed a treaty of friendship with Morocco and sought to improve relations with West Germany and France. But Libya's mercurial strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, has disappointed Western leaders who may have hoped that he had turned his hand from duplicity to diplomacy. Last week repercussions of his latest antics resounded around the world...
With the miners slowly drifting back to work, Scargill is going to need lots of help wherever he can find it. A month ago he turned to Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi for aid - although, apparently, none has yet been received - and he now appears to be seeking continued Soviet support. The Kremlin is not without sympathy for the miners' leader: last year, while visiting Moscow, Scargill noted that the threat to world peace came from that "most dangerous duo, President Ray-Gun and the plutonium blond, Margaret Thatcher." He also attacked the outlawed Polish trade union Solidarity...
...decision by the O.A.U.'s 50 member states must have given the King second thoughts about his own new partnership with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Three months ago, in an effort to prevent such a decision and to end Libyan support for the Polisario Front, Hassan signed a surprise unity agreement with Gaddafi. But his new ally proved to be no friend in need; only Zaïre joined the Moroccan walkout...