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Article: Suddenly conciliatory Qaddafi. (Libya's relations with other North African countries)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1988
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QUESTIONABLE mental stability and overweening geopolitical ambition are qualities that his critics attribute to Colonel Moammar Qaddafi. Be that as it may, he has been prudently reducing Libya's targets. He may be limbering up for fresh battles in Chad to the south, yet the colonel has been unusually conciliatory towards his North African neighbours, including Egypt, the Arab country he has loved and hated the most.
On March 28th he rounded off a month of reciprocal gestures by announcing that he was withdrawing Libyan troops from the border with Egypt. Earlier Egypt had released four Libyan MIG-23 fighter aircraft which, on March 1st, landed in a sand-storm in ...