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Gaddafi, for his part, emerged last week in Tripoli for a bizarre 20- second appearance marking the anniversary of the 1986 U.S. bombing raid on Libya. After stepping onto a platform before an audience of some 500 mostly foreign guests, Gaddafi inexplicably turned around and left. Aides could not account for the mercurial leader's sudden exit, which left the four-day anti- American get-together to speakers ranging from American Indian militants to seasoned '60s radicals and at least one British Labor...
...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...
...been a contest between two rival northerners, Goukouni Oueddei, who was once the country's President and has more recently been the leader of the northern rebels, and Hissene Habre, once a guerrilla leader and since 1982 the President. Three months ago, while ( visiting the Libyan capital of Tripoli, Goukouni was shot and wounded in the Gaddafi compound under circumstances that have never been explained. He is still in Libya, reportedly under house arrest...
...traveled to Tehran and secured the release of four Britons being held by Iranian authorities. Three years later he again intervened for Brit ain, this time in Libya, where four British citizens had been jailed, unwitting pawns in an ugly political duel between the governments in London and Tripoli. Following a Christmas Day meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan strongman's Bedouin tent, the Britons were freed. In September 1985 Waite played a still unspecified role in the release of a U.S. hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, who had been held for 16 months in Lebanon...
Given the bloody history of recent terrorist attacks and the resulting U.S. bombing raid on Tripoli and Benghazi in April, American reporters had good reason to go after the story. But they were chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. The Washington Post claimed last week that the rumors over Libya had been instigated by the Administration in a "secret and unusual campaign of deception" to destabilize Muammar Gaddafi...