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John A. (Johnny) Walker seemed to be a good ole boy, given to girls, guns and gadgets, not politics. A career Navy man who retired as a chief warrant officer in 1976, Walker, 47, worked as a private detective in Norfolk, Va., dated a policewoman and loved to fly around in his single-engine plane. His three private-investigation firms supplied security services to companies as well as run-of-the-mill snooping for individual clients. But on a rural Maryland road one night last week, FBI agents caught Walker apparently pursuing another one of his businesses: supplying U.S. military...
...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...
...purpose of his Paris trip was merely to consult with French unionists and denied that the mineworkers were seeking money from Gaddafi to support their 35-week strike against Britain's national ized coal industry. Nonetheless Scargill's Libyan connection, revealed seven months after a British policewoman was killed by shots fired from Libya's London embassy, sparked a public outcry. "It is dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, who has supported the strike...
Recalling Britain's experience when a policewoman was shot and killed from a window of the Libyan embassy last April, Thatcher also pressed for the statement on terrorism. Among other things, it called for consultation and "as far as possible cooperation" in dealing with known terrorists. Privately, summit officials explained that too much publicity would limit the effectiveness of any antiterrorist campaign. They hinted that the leaders had agreed to intelligence activities that were not spelled out in the statement...
...London, responsibility for last week's assault was claimed by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, the organization that staged the anti-Gaddafi demonstration that led to the shooting of the British policewoman. The group is known to have links to the Muslim Brotherhood. One source in Beirut described the affair as a coup that went wrong when some of the plotters were arrested and a planned army uprising failed to materialize...