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Ever since Palestinian terrorists staged attacks last Dec. 27 at Rome and Vienna airports against the Israeli airline El Al, it was inevitable that the Israelis would respond. Last week they apparently thought they had their + chance. As a Libyan Gulfstream II executive jet carrying nine passengers and three crewmen passed the southeastern coast of Cyprus on its way to Damascus, two Israeli fighter jets intercepted the aircraft and ordered the pilot to proceed to Ramat David air force base, near Haifa...
...Palestinians, as well as the Syrians and Lebanese, had been attending a three-day meeting in Tripoli of what Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi called the Allied Leadership of the Revolutionary Forces of the Arab Nation. Representatives of 22 Palestinian and other Arab organizations had been called together for a meeting at Gaddafi's stronghold, the Bab al Azizia barracks. The purpose: to demonstrate radical Arab support for Gaddafi in the face of U.S. naval maneuvers taking place off the Libyan coast. The delegates, who included Habash and Jabril, duly approved an eleven-point resolution proposing, among other things, the creation...
...Arabian capital of Riyadh, Hussain Lwasani, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's director for African and Arab affairs, met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal. Lwasani's mission, said a Saudi spokesman, was "related to the current oilmarket situation." A day later, Major Khoualdy Humaidi, a member of Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi's governing Revolutionary Command Council, showed up for a session with Saudi King Fahd. Later, it was announced that the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would hold an emergency meeting in mid-February...
...officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some leading radicals rejected the Libyan leader's thinly veiled call for a new terrorist campaign, including George Habash and Abu Moussa...
...time has come for the Arab nation to hit back by uniting to strike at the heart of imperalism," the sources quoted him as saying. There was no official report on the proceedings, and Libyan officials declined comment...