Libya Arms Sales

Companies from Switzerland, Italy, China and Thailand have provided Libya with components for a massive poison gas factory that could be completed this year, a German newsmagazine said. The information has been relayed to the German government by German intelligence, said the magazine Der Spiegel.

Companies from Switzerland, Italy, China and Thailand have provided Libya with components for a massive poison gas factory that could be completed this year, a German newsmagazine said. The information has been relayed to the German government by German intelligence, said the magazine Der Spiegel.

CIA Director William H. Webster said that Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi's chemical weapons plant is so big that he could easily share its output with other radical nations. "The production capability is far more than Col. Kadafi could ever need or use by any stretch of the imagination," Webster told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kadafi has said the plant was built to produce pharmaceuticals.

CIA Director William H. Webster said that Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi's chemical weapons plant is so big that he could easily share its output with other radical nations. "The production capability is far more than Col. Kadafi could ever need or use by any stretch of the imagination," Webster told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kadafi has said the plant was built to produce pharmaceuticals.

Libya lost its last chance to avert U.N. sanctions Tuesday when the International Court of Justice dismissed Col. Moammar Kadafi's plea that Britain and the United States have no right to demand custody of the two suspects in the 1988 terrorist bombing of a Pan Am flight over Scotland. With the 11-5 decision clearing all legal obstacles, the sanctions descended upon the erratically led North African country, one of the few official pariahs in U.N.