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...Portugal could not have been used in Portuguese weapons. Portugal has made a protest to Madrid. In addition, the respected Madrid daily El Pais has charged the Spanish government with selling $280 million of ammunition and military equipment to Iran since 1983, often using phony papers that listed Libya and Syria as buyers. The government denies the charges...
...image relished by demagogues on both right and left, has actually receded a bit. No small part of that legacy is Reagan's insistence on building a better fighting machine and his courage to use it when American interests are threatened. The young Americans who bombed Libya, who apprehended the Achille Lauro hijackers, feel better about themselves and their capabilities, and for that reason the world has more respect for U.S. power. That change will not go out of office with Reagan...
Relations between Egypt and its unruly neighbor Libya are not the best. Just last month Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would shake the hand of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi only if it were "not booby-trapped." Last week relations got worse when five Libyan air-force men flew their American-built C-130 military cargo plane to Abu Simbel in southern Egypt and requested political asylum...
...plane, which reportedly had ferried food and other supplies to Libyan forces in Chad, is one of eight American-built carriers Libya bought before Gaddafi expelled U.S. forces in 1970. Libyan radio claimed bad weather had forced the plane down and warned Egypt to return it. Meanwhile Egypt, chary of Libyan troublemakers, withheld a decision on three of the airmen and granted asylum to two of them...
...victims were accused of belonging to an extreme antigovernment Muslim fundamentalist group said to have plotted to assassinate selected Soviet advisers in Libya and members of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's revolutionary committees. Exiled Libyans, however, claim the soldiers were executed for taking part in a mutiny protesting against Gaddafi's recent armed intervention in Chad...