NY TIMES ARTICLE - QADHAFI MEETING WITH EUROPEAN ANTINUCLEAR GROUPS

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• Document Release Date: January 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: August 11, 1982
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SUBJECT: NY TIMES ARTICLE - QADHAFI MEETING WITH EUROPEAN
ANTINUCLEAR GROUPS
2. BONN, JULY 26 (BY JOHN VINOCUR). COL. MUAMMAR EL
THE LIBYAN LEADER, HAS OFFERED TO HELP GROUPS
LIED WITH THE EUROPEAN ANTINUCLEAR MOVEMENT TO TRY TO
CLOSE UNITED STATES MILITARY BASES IN EUROPE AND HAS URGED
THAT AS PART OF THE ATTEMPT, THEY CUT OFF WATER AND SUPPLIES
AT THE INSTALLATIONS, ACCORDING TO A LEFT-WING WEST BERLIN
NEWSPAPER.
A REPORT IN THE NEWSPAPER DIE TAGESZEITUNG, PUBLISHED OVER
THE WEEKEND, SAID THE LIBYAN LEADER MADE THE PROPOSAL IN A
MEETING EARLIER THIS MONTH IN TRIPOLI W TH REPRESENTATIVES ~//~
OF THE GROUPS, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE GREEN PARTY, A ~/~-
SMALL WEST GERMAN POLITICAL GROUP THAT S IN THE FOREFRONT
OF MOVEMENTS TO STOP THE POSSIBLE DEPLOYMENT OF NEW UNITED
STATES MEDIUM-RANGE MISSILES IN WESTERN EUROPE NEXT YEAR.
ACCORDING TO THE NEWSPAPER REPORT, WRITTEN BY A JOURNALIST
WHO TOOK PART IN THE MEETINGS, MR. QADDAFI TOLD THE GROUP:
"THE U.S. BASES IN WESTERN EUROPE MUST BE DISMANTLED AS
QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. THAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH
THE GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS AND PROTEST."
"INSTEAD OF DEMONSTRATIONS ON THE STREET, THEY SHOULD
TAKE PLACE AT THE BASES, AND WATER AND SUPPLIES SHOULD BE
CUT OFF. NATURALLY, ALL BY PEACEFUL MEANS," MR. QADDAFI
WAS QUOTED AS SAYING.
THE NEWSPAPER SAID MR. QADDAFI CONTINUED, "WHEN PEACEFUL
EFFORTS DON'T LEAD TO SUCCESS, THEN THEY BECOME MILITARY
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.EFFORTS."
USING THE TERM FEDAYEEN TO REFER TO ARAB GUERRILLAS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST, MR. QADDAFI WENT ON: "FEDAYEEN GROUPS WILL
BE FOUNDED AGAIN IN ORDER TO REACH THIS GOAL. THAT MUST
BE MADE CLEAR TO THE MASSES. EITHER THE BASES WILL BE
STOPPED THROUGH YOUR PEACEFUL EFFORTS, OR THE ALTERNATIVE
WOULD BE WAR AND DESTRUCTION. WE SUPPORT THIS PEACEFUL
PROGRAM AND ARE READY TO OFFER THE NECESSARY MEANS."
AFTER THE AMERICAN BASES WERE SHUT, HE WAS QUOTED AS
SAYING, THE MOVEMENT COULD CONTINUE WITH THE SAME GOAL IN
EASTERN EUROPE.
THE NEWSPAPER SAID THE GROUPS WERE NOT SEEKING MATERIAL
HELP FROM LIBYA AND A SPOKESMAN FOR THE GREEY.IN
BONN, WHICH HOLDS SEATS IN FIVE STATE LEGISLATURES, SAID
ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE KNEW NOTHING IN ADVANCE OF THE
THE GREENS WERE REPRESEN ED BY~ROL ND V A MEMBER OF
THE PARTY EXECUTIVE, AN GERTRUD SCI'INg, A CANDIDATE
FOR THE STATE LEGISLATU~ IN HESSE
MR
VOGT I5 ALSO +/
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CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS' INITIA-
TIVES, ONE OF THE TWO GROUPS THAT SPONSORED THE MASS
DEMONSTRATION IN BONN JUNE 10 AGAINST NATO NUCLEAR POLICY.
~/ OTHER WEST GERMAN GUESTS OF THE LIBYAN LEADER WERE~OTTO
~j S LY,~ A MEMBER OF THE WEST BERLIN PA LIAMENTARY ROUP
ALLIED WITH THE GREENS, AND A
MUNICH ACADEMIC WHO DESCRIB S HIMSELF AS A PEACE RESEARCH-
ER.
THE NEWSPAPER SAID .THE WEST GERMANS, WHO WERE GUESTS OF
THE LIBYAN GOVERNMENT, WERE JOINED BY INDIVIDUALS FROM
AUSTRIA, ITALY AND BRITAIN.
ACCORDING TO OIE TAGESZEITUNG, MR. QADDAFI ALSO TOLD THE
GROUP THAT THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL MUST BE BOYCOTTED
ECONOMICALLY AND MILITARILY. IMMIGRATION TO ISRAEL MUST
BE STOPPED, HE SAID, "AND THOSE WHO HAVE COME TO ISRAEL
MUST BE RETURNED TO THEIR COUNTRIES IN EUROPE OR WHEREVER."
THE NEWSPAPER REPORTED THAT MRS. SCHILLING TRIED TO OUT-
LINE THE GOALS OF THE GREENS IN WEST GERMANY TO THE
LIBYAN LEADER. IT SAID SHE EXPLAINED: "THE GREENS
HAVE SET THE GOAL OF ABOLISHING PARLIAMENT, THAT MEANS
PRACTICING DIRECT DEMOCRACY INSTEAD. INSOFAR AS THE
CRITICISM OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM GOES, THE GROUPS
HAVE VERY MUCH IN COMMON WITH THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE
'GREEN BOOK "' -- THE BOOK WRITTEN BY MR. QADDAFI IN WHICH
HE OUTLINES HIS THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT.
MRS. SCHILLING ALSO TOLD THE COLONEL, ACCORDING TO THE
NEWSPAPER, THAT THE GREENS, UNLIKE LIBYA, OID NOT FAVOR
MILITARY DEFENSE AND WERE TRYING, INSTEAD, "TO DEVELOP
ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF DEFENSE."
THE GROUP WAS DESCRIBED AS POSING MANY HARD QUESTIONS
ABOUT THE ONE-PARTY SYSTEM IN LIBYA, REPORTS OF THE
COUNTRY'S SUPPORT OF TERRORISM, AND THE MURDER OF
OPPONENTS OF THE QADDAFI REGIME IN EUROPE. THE ANSWERS
THE GROUP RECEIVED, THE NEWSPAPER REPORT SAID, DID NOT
SATISFY ALL THE VISITORS. SHULTZ
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