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...more backward and impoverished of the Arab countries, had few friends abroad. A radical who considers the Palestine Liberation Organization too moderate, Gaddafi had vociferously opposed the peace overtures of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Egyptian and Libyan armies had even engaged in border skirmishes. A supporter of worldwide terrorist activities against governments he opposes, Gaddafi was considered unreliable by Soviet leaders, although they were generously plying him with sophisticated arms. While Gaddafi kept selling oil to the U.S., his relations with Washington had been strained ever since 1973, when President Nixon blocked the sale of eight C-130 Hercules...
Foreigners found Moscow suffused with policemen and soldiers. American-made Friskem metal detectors were in use at many hotels, so that returning to a room was as bothersome as boarding an airplane. The Olympic Village, whose counterpart in Munich in 1972 was the target of the terrorist attack in which eleven died, was under particularly tight control. Said James Gilkes, a U.S.-educated sprinter from Guyana: "I'm in the right wing of Building 13, but I can't even go into the left wing. If I want to see someone who's in another building...
...possibility of suspending Israel's U.N. membership "if it continued to ignore the decisions of the organization and refused to evacuate the occupied Arab territories." For his part, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum denounced the emergency session as a "grotesque farce" and called the P.L.O. "a linchpin of the terrorist international." When he rose to speak, practically all the Arab delegates left the Assembly chamber...
...were sweeping Turkey's capital that the country's top military commanders were in an emergency meeting plotting a takeover. As it turned out, the officers were merely attending a military wedding, but the wave of jitters was a barometer of the mood in a country where terrorist violence has claimed 2,000 lives this year and personal rivalries have stalemated the political process...
...strike in protest against the "fascist coup-makers." Tanks and troops also moved into southern towns where some 5,000 armed tin miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs in cars without license plates...