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An attempt by Libya (AC Vol 39 No 21) to obtain rocket guidance systems has signalled that Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s Al Fateh missile scheme may be quiescent but is not, as many believed, dead. The deal was arranged by a small Italian company which, we hear, is at the centre of intense United States’ intelligence interest. Washington has been unsuccesfully trying to pressurise Rome to take action....

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Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’, Italian, United States, West German, Soviet, Al Fateh, Fateh

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