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Moscow may believe that by waiting it can benefit if the U.S. fails to resolve the impasse in Lebanon. But there are signs that such a strategy may ultimately backfire. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi called East bloc ambassadors in for an angry lecture, warning them that "we have no answers to give our masses about the attitudes of our friends toward Zionist aggression." The effects of Moscow's reticence could also be far-reaching. Said a P.L.O. official bluntly: "Perhaps the Soviets feel they have not lost much in Lebanon, but I assure you they have lost something...
...helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge in a seaside villa in Tripoli, beyond the reach of frustrated U.S. authorities. But last week he got careless, and federal agents managed to ensnare him in an ingenious trap set on three continents...
Habre's victory was assured when Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi snubbed Goukouni's last-ditch plea for assistance. In 1980 Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...
...change in the Iraqi leadership would be welcomed not only by Saddam's domestic rivals but by another enemy, Syrian President Hafez Assad, and by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, both of whom enjoy Soviet backing and have helped Iran in the war. But Saddam Hussein's fall would cause great concern in the capitals of moderate Arab states, notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which have been supporting Iraq. In consequence, the U.S. is also concerned. In a speech devoted entirely to Middle East policy, Secretary of State Alexander Haig told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations last...
That happened last November. Previously, the Reagan Administration's cornerstone of its Mideast strategy (insofar as one could be divined) involved an all-out attack on Lybia's Muammar Qaddifi. Saudi Arabia, obviously very impressed with the tacit quid pro quos which attend a bilateral arms deal, obliged by restoring diplomatic relations with Libya. And when Weinberger arrived in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, he negotiated all night to get the Saudis to sign a communique supporting the much-heralded anti-Soviet consensus. Through perserverance, Weinberger won a remarkable concession: While the Saudis resisted signing the communique, they agreed that...