Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, the U.S. began airlifting out of Chad several hundred Libyan dissidents who had served as soldiers in the pro-Western government of ousted President Hissene Habre. Tripoli accused the U.S. of training the dissidents to carry out commando raids in Libya, but Washington refused to comment...
...accounts. He initially claimed that after leaving Poland, he did not return until last year. But the pro-Solidarity paper Gazeta Wyborcza cited government records that showed he visited the country seven times between 1980 and 1989 -- with the visa for each trip obtained from the Polish embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Tyminski called the reports...
There is the George Bush who hates more than anything being called a wimp. As an understudy for the post of Commander in Chief, he watched as Ronald Reagan evoked applause on the home front by bombing Tripoli and invading Grenada. Last December Bush tried his own hand at such stuff. He busted a drug lord holed up in Panama. As a result, Manuel Noriega is now awaiting trial in a prison cell in the Miami Metropolitan Correctional Center...
...April 5, 1986, an 11-lb. bomb killed two U.S. servicemen and injured 230 people in the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin. Ten days later, blaming Libya, President Reagan ordered a U.S. bombing raid on Tripoli. Yet investigators were never able to prove conclusively that Libya was behind the attack...
Meanwhile, arms proliferate throughout the Middle East. Last week Libya successfully tested a system to refuel fighter-bombers in midflight, thus improving Tripoli's ability to attack Israel. In Beijing witnesses photographed a heavily guarded convoy of flatbed trucks carrying a total of 26 short-range missiles toward the port of Tianjin. Although it cannot be proved that the missiles are destined for the Middle East, it is feared that they are intended for delivery to Syria or Iran...