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J;f;fjtifu~ THE PUZZLING LIBYAN CONNECTION: Observers of State Department intrigue are puzzled by reports from the Libyan underground alleging that David Newsom, undersecretary of state for African affairs, spent the day and part of the night huddled with Col. Muammar Qaddafi during a trip to Libya last June. Newsom, who was our ambassador to Libya from 1964 until one month before the coup that put Qaddafi in power in 1969, is said to have had a close prior relationship with Qaddafi . That coup, which resulted in the closing of the big American air base, Wheeler field, and ensconcement of a ruler who has bankrolled terrorism, supported brutal African dictatorships like that of Idi Amin and who is Presently engaged in intrigues and plots to subvert the Israeli-Egyptian peace initiative, also has been of considerable benefit to certain favored U.S. oil comPanies. The Newsom-Qaddafi connection, which oddly has escaped the scrutiny of the big investigative American media, raises some interesting questions. MORE FOREIGN INTRIGUE: The American U.N. delegation got only two observer seats for the Fidel Castro U.N. "speech" while the Cubans got 200, another symbolic nail in the coffin of American U.N. policy. Many legislators are seriously reconsidering their commitment to pay 25 percent of United Nations costs ... Those big black cases carried by Castro's bodyguard contained Israel's Uzzi machine guns, also used by the U.s. Secret Service ... Colombia, our Principal pot supplier, is undertaking only token resistence to stop the flow - too much money at stake: it's the Principal source of their foreign exchange, now worth more than coffee
exports. With population increasing at the appalling rate of 3.2 percent a year, the country, still a democracy, is girding for an uncertain future. POLITICS: Kennedy pros secretly gathering up lists of Carter defectors for revelation at big announcement time. Some names will be shockers, since Carter people still think they're on the Carter wagon ... but with inside Carter polls beginning to show Carter's "going-to-the-people'' approach working, plans are to increase the strategy and take bigger potshots at Washington (the place, the ambience, etc.) ... Non-ideological professionals, the hired political guns, think John Connally's strategy of making foreign policy in advance sheer suicide. The political axiom of the challenger: "Attack the incumbent's policy. Never make your own. " They're beginning to write him off. .. The pros also think Ronald Reagan's age might wind up a plus factor. As inflation goes up, fixed incomes go down. The vast army of retired , who suffer the most by spiraling costs, could go in one vast block . Block voting by any segment with a single interest is a powerful electoral instrument. .. Kennedy forces scouting for a Midwesterner as veep, a Senator. But watch out for trial balloons. BITS AND PIECES: Iranians appalled by what Ayatollah Khomeini is doing to their country are forming an Iranian Freedom Foundation to serve as a rallying point to restore some sanity. The tO-member council is headed by a former official of the embassy, Ali Tabatabai. . . Donations are being sought to build a Jewish museum in Cairo. Jews have had a long and rich history in Egypt.. .Elizabeth Taylor Warner's weight loss in Palm Aire spa has boosted business there.
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