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...more sinister role, Dubberstein had apparently made clandestine connections with former CIA Agent Edwin Wilson, who has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for a series of convictions on charges of smuggling arms and explosives to Muammar Gaddafi's terrorist government in Libya. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Dubberstein on charges of selling U.S. secrets to Libya for more than $32,000. Wilson's threat that if the Government prosecuted him other intelligence officials would be drawn into the same net of allegations was thus fulfilled...
...idea for fear that it would cause panic among the dispirited troops. As conditions deteriorated, he says, Menendez "seemed to shrink five centimeters every day." Faced with a severe equipment shortage, Galtieri reveals that he bought ten Mirage jets from Peru, then cut a deal with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the delivery of five Boeings loaded with materiel. Galtieri also admits what everyone has suspected all along: he did not resign voluntarily after the debacle. His fellow generals forced him to quit...
...sundry potentates presented the Indians with a security nightmare. To forestall violence or the danger of terrorist attacks, the government had posted battalions of army troops, equipped with machine guns deftly concealed behind flowers, at key intersections throughout the city. At the last minute, Libya's erratic Colonel Muammar Gaddafi abandoned an elaborate scheme to fly into the city in a trio of Learjets, two of them decoys in case someone should try to shoot him down, and stayed home. So did Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who had been scheduled to be host at the nonaligned summit in Baghdad...
Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have wanted to acquire nuclear technology. Lebanese Businessman Anthony Tannoury seemed anxious to make a lot of quick bucks. Neither succeeded, but those were the elements of what seems to have been an unusually audacious swindle...
...trouble spots of the Middle East, the only one that offered Washington solace was Libya. A week earlier the U.S. had dispatched air and naval units to the eastern Mediterranean in the face of reports that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was about to attack Sudan or Chad. U.S. pilots were under orders to follow any Libyan aircraft that attacked their planes "back to the hangars," meaning that they should bomb the airfields from which the Libyan planes had taken off. But the crisis receded as quickly as it had arisen, leading Shultz to declare that "at least...