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Article: Qaddafi's battle for survival. (Muammar Qadhafi)(includes related article on foreign companies in Libya) (Cover Story)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- April 17, 1992
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The passage of Unresolution 748, calling for the imposition of limited sanctions on Libya, has brought the Lockerbie affair to a head. Angus Hindley reports on the narrowing options facing Washington and London in their avowed aim to try the two Libyan suspects and assesses the chances of Libya's Muammar Qaddafi riding out the most serious crisis to hit his regime since tbe bombing of Tripoli in 1986
ACCORDING to Mohamed Heikal, the distinguished Egyptian commentator, Muammar Qaddafi has already offered a novel way of resolving the six-month-long Lockerbie crisis. Heikal recounts that, amid signs of growing desperation in February, the embattled Qaddafi ...