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...Houston, Wilson, 54, was convicted of shipping 20 tons of plastic explosives from the city's Intercontinental Airport to Tripoli in 1977. In Dallas, Smalley, 42, was charged with conspiring to smuggle 100 tanks to Iran and 8,300 antitank missiles to its foe Iraq. Both offered similar alibis: they were motivated by patriotism rather than profit and believed, their lawyers claimed, that they were involved in covert operations sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi has been accused of many things, but lack of gall is not one of them. In August, he grandly convoked the 19th annual summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. For Gaddafi it was to be a major event: according to a decision made at the 1981 summit in Nairobi, the Tripoli gathering would confirm his installation as O.A.U. chairman for one year. But Gaddafi alienated a number of moderate African states by helping to engineer the recognition of the Polisario guerrilla movement, which opposes Morocco...
...what appeared to be a conciliatory gesture, Gaddafi announced before the scheduled meeting that Polisario representatives had "voluntarily and temporar ily" withdrawn both from the rescheduled summit and from a preliminary gathering in Tripoli of African foreign ministers. In response, 44 national delegations turned up for the initial gathering. Then the posturing began. In a welcoming speech, Gaddafi exposed his territorial ambitions in northern Africa by proposing to abandon one of the O.A.U.'s most sacred principles: the inviolability of the national borders inherited from Africa's former colonial powers...
...days. But finally only 30 delegations were willing to register for the meeting, and Gaddafi had to concede that there would be no conclave. As always, he tried to have the final word. "Contrary to what many think," Gaddafi declared, "the fact that the O.A.U. leaders have come to Tripoli twice to attend the [summit] is a victory for the Libyan people." The only loser was the O.A.U...
...agent from 1954 to 1970 who then worked in a Navy intelligence group before retiring in 1976, Wilson seemed to sense that his luck had run out. For nearly two years after his first indictment in 1980, the millionaire ex-spook escaped arrest, living in a seaside villa in Tripoli, Libya, on the proceeds from his lucrative business. In his dealings he enlisted help from former agents, as well as from firms he had used as covers in his CIA days. Last June federal agents sprung a brilliant, elaborate trap covering three continents and lured the elusive Wilson back...