Khadafy challenges U.S. to prove plot
By CHARLES CAMPBELL
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) Libyan leader
Col. Moammar Khadafy denied
yesterday that he has sent "hit squads"
to assassinate President Reagan and
challenged the United States to prove
that such a plot exists.
"We are sure we haven't sent any --
people' to kill Reagan or any other
people in the world, and we want to see
these big lies," he said. "We have no
patience to hear this again, and if ,they
have evidence, we are ready to see this
evidence."
Khadafy's challenge came in a
television interview from hig office. in
Tripoli for the ABC News program
"This Week with David Brinkley,"
beamed live to the United States by
satellite.
"We want investigation, to see the
truth, and let the American people and
the Libyan people and the congress of,
America to know the truth, who is liar:
Reagan or Libya," he said. "I am
challenging them. I am challenging
them to make this investigation."
Khadafy, dressed in a red shirt
covered by an embroidered blue cape,
spoke in English, but with a heavy
accent that was sometimes difficult to
understand. Occasionally an off
camer,4 prompter suggested a word, or
Text of Khadafy interview with ABC
NEW YORK (AP) Here is a text of
Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's
comments yesterday on the ABC News .
program "This Week with David Brinkley,"
as transcribed by The Associated Press.
Khadafy spoke in his Tripoli office to ABC
News correspondent Lou Cioffi and the
interview was beamed live to the United
States via satellite. Khadafy spoke in English,
but his words were often unintelligible and
wsebroken frequeßtly at the beginning of the
ppogram by technical difficulties.
Q: I presume you're well aware of the
things being said about you in the United
States. The government says it has evidence
that you've sent,as§assipatlon.§,quads to the
U.S. for the purpose Of killing'President
Reagan and other top American officials.
Would you comment?
A: We are yery surprised about this news.
And it is very (unintelligible).
It is a scheme of the terrorist policy that is
acting towards us by the American
administration, of the administration of
Reagan, who issues allegations, accusations.
We have no patience to hear this again, and if
they have evidence, we are ready to see this
evidence, to see who these people who are
acting behind us and behind the Libyan people
to commit this crime, this thing.
We refuse to assassinate any person. On the
other side we are ready to fight against
America in the Mediterranean Sea, in our
borders, because America is attacking us,
attacking our Arab country, Arab land, if he
were. And it is not our character, not our
behavior, to assassinate any person. It is the
behavior of America (unintelligible)
Students at The Music Academy study everything from violin to oboe to singing.
This girl gets an hour-long lesson on the electric piano.
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corrected something Khadafy said.
The 39-year-old Libyan strongman,
who took power in a 1969 coup, called
Reagan silly, ignorant and unqualified,
and said the American president was
lying and behaving like a child. But he
denied ordering Reagan's death.
"We refuse to assassinate any
person. It is not our custom, our
behavior, to assassinate any person,"
he said. "It is the behavior of
America. . .to assassinate me, to
poison my food, and they tried many
things to do this."
White House spokesman Robin Gray
said the administration Would have no
comment on Khadafy's challenge to
produce etidence behind news reports
that intelligence officials believe a
terrorist team has been sent to the
United States with orders from the
Libyan leader to kill Reagan.
Reagan said Friday he was
"concerned" about intelligence
information that he is the chief target of
a Libyan-trained assassination squad.
Asked if he took the plot seriously, the
president said, "I think you have to."
Before the Khadafy interview
yesterday, ABC News reported that
U.S. intelligence officials have
identified 'the members of a five-man
squad as three Libyans, an Iranian and
an East German. It said the FBI was
preparing to assassinate me, to poison my
food and they tried many things to do this.
Q: Are you saying, Colonel, that the
Americans actually tried to kill you?
A: Yes, I am sure, and the world is sure also
it is true. And it made a problem in the
American government, to the CIA (technical
difficulties).
Q: Colonel, you were not involved in the
death of. Egypt's President Sadat. Even the
Egyptian government admits. The last time
we spoke, you said you were glad he was dead.
Would you (technical difficulties).
David Brinkley: We've got the sound fixed,
I think. We're now going back to Tripoli,
Libya, where Lou Cioffi is talking to
Moammar Khadafy. •
Q: Colonel, if I may repeat a question. If the
reports about the Libyan plot against the
president are not true, why do you think the
United States is making these accusations
against you:
A: I think because we are refusing to bow
our heads in front of America and refusing to
be (unintelligible) or under the domination of
America and we are refusing to be slaves of
America. We want to be free country, a
nonaligned country. America doesn't want
this kind of people in the world. America
wants to dominate all the world. And divide
the world into enemies or slaves to America.
And we refuse to be slaves. I think the Zionist
propaganda is behind the many accusations
and negations against us in America. And
America take care of any revolts from any
sources.
Like Sadat, like Numeiri, like any person
who is (unintelligible) outside Libya against
one ian
tracking the team, which was said to be
armed with automatic weapons and
under Khadafy's direct control.
Newsweek magazine said Saturday
that a Lebanese defector told U.S.
intelligence that he was present at a
meeting in Libya six or eight weeks ago
at which Khadafy ordered the
assassination of Reagan and other top
U.S. officials.
Security officials have tightened
protection in recent days around
Reagan, Vice President George Bush,
Cabinet officials and around Capitol
Hill, while asking news organizations to
show restraint in reporting specific
security measures that might aid
would-be assassins.
Asked if he had hired former CIA
agents and Green Beyets to train
Libyan troops, Khadafy said "In fact
we didn't hire them, but they flew from
America and they escaped from
America and came here asking
freedom, asking a peaceful life."
Khadafy ridiculed the American
attention to a supposed threat from
Libya, which he pointed out has about
one-hundredth the population of the
United States.
Khadafy said Reagan "is silly and he
is not qualified to lead America as a
superpower."
Music Academy offers
more than 'do, re, mi'
By PATRICIA FITZGERALD
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
It's four o'clock in the afternoon,
and a stream of aspiring musicians
are beginning to file into the large,
red brick house at 519 W. College
Ave. home of The Music
Academy.
They enter in groups of two and -••
three. Some lug book bags and lunch
buckets, while the older, more
sophisticated students carry a
backpack or a neat stack of
notebooks under their arms. All,
however, bear the mark of a
musician either a collection of
tattered song books or a black case,
which could contain anything from a
flute or an oboe to a trombone or
violin.
Some of the musicians are talking
and laughing about what happened
in school that day, while others enter
silently with rumpled hair and
clothing the sign of a rough day in
the fourth grade.
But once inside the academy, a
person's age and mood becomes
unimportant. The students are there
for one reason to learn to make
music.
Libyan people, how they trust him? We want
this evidence, if they have evidence to see
these people who want to assassinate Reagan.
We want to see who sent them. It is the
responsibility of . . . (unintelligible).
Q: Well, sir, you've told me on several times
before that you really want normal relations
with the United States, but relations keep
getting worse. Why? And do you still want
good, normal relations with the United
States?
'How you (Americans) are
afraid of . . . Col.
Khadafy? afraid of Libya?
Libya is only 2 million and
you are 200 million. You
are superpower, how you
are afraid?
Col. Moammar
Khadafy
A: Yes, I still want good relations with the
United States, like any other countries in the
world. But America refuses to normalize the
relations between us.
Q: Are you ready to normalize diplomatic
relations?
A: Yes, we are ready to establish normal
A tired, little boy who moments
before could barely make it through
the front door of the Victorian house
is now diligently singing scales in an
upstairs studio, while a group of
giggling girls have quieted down and
now sit attentively at electric
keyboards, waiting for their teacher
to begin the hour-long lesson.
The voices and sounds from the
various instruments clash as they
begin to fill the carpet-lined
hallways. Sour notes are as common
as "do, re, mi." But the mistakes
eventually turn into music, and
before too long, stirring marches
and dreamy lullabies resound.
"There's something for everyone
here," said Martha Harbison,
director of The Music Academy.
"We offer to both children and
adults in the area the chance to
broaden their musical abilities and
interests."
The Music Academy was founded
in 1964 by two State College women
who saw the need and the interest
for an institution that would provide
instruction
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Col. Moammar lthadafy
relations with America, like other countries in
the world.
Q: You're ready to talk? You're ready to
negotiate with the United States, to talk to
American officials?
A: We are ready to make a (unintelligible)
with them on the little, of any.
Q: Did the joint American-Egyptian
maneuver, military maneuvers in Egypt, that
just took place recently, did that worry you?
Of course. And, it has worried all the
Arab peoples. And we don't consider-it as a
maneuver, but it is an a (unintelligible).
Q: Have you hired former American. CIA
agents and Green Berets to train your troops,
and to bring in weapons?
A: In fact we didn't hire them, but they flew
from America and escaped from America and
they came here asking freedom, asking
peaceful life. Because they said, 'We have
living in the hell of CIA and the fire of
America.' And here in Libya is a peaceful life
and they feel they are free here. And they
wanted to live among us peacefully and to
cooperate with their colleagues, their Libyan
collegues here.
Q: Did they ever provide you with
American weapons?
A: No, at all, because we have no need to
ask this from them. Because we have our
friends, to buy weapons and these sources.
Q: Well, you say you are against terrorism,
Colonel, and yet there are reports that the
worldwide terrorist called Carlos lives here in
Libya, you're giving him protection.
A: I heard this name many times, and you
asked me many times, it is silly question,
anyhow. We don't know this person, and he is
By LINDY WASHBURN
Associated Press Writer
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP)
Some survivors of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor and
relatives of its victims will lead
patriotic ceremonies in Hawaii and
around the country today, the 40th
anniversary of the bombing.
Today, six sailors aboard the USS
Arizona who survived the attack will
gather with some 14 others who
earlier served aboard the battleship
for a private ceremony at the
memorial that now straddles the
Arizona's submerged hull.
Below the memorial, resting in 38
feet of water, lie entombed the
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not here, absolutely. And you are afraid of
Carlos. America the superpower is afraid of
Khadafy, Carlos. Always Reagan and his
administration, saying to their people through
their TV and every broadcasting stations:
Khadafy, Khadafy, Khadafy, Carlos, Carlos,
Libya, Libya.
How you are silly people. How you are
afraid of Carlos, afraid of Col. Khadafy?
afraid of Libya? Libya is only 2 million and
you are 200 million. You are superpower, how
you are afraid?
Oh, it is silly this administration, and this
president. America must get rid of this
administration, and fell it down, as they did
with Nixon and elect another respectful
president to get respect for'America. He
destroyed the reputation of America by this
bad policy he's acting now against Libya and
against other (unintelligible) countries, like
Libya.
Q: Well despite the relations between our
two countries, there are hundreds of Libyan
students who are in the United States
studying. Are you going to bring them home?
A: Their existence there is evidence of our
good willing towards America. For that, the
CIA makes pressure on them, to make some
of them as agents, (off-camera voice:
recruits) and for that the CIA succeeded to get
about 30 Libyan students in America to be
agents of America. And some reports came
from them.
Q: You mean some of the Libyan students
became agents Of the United States?
A: Yes, we are sure. And they them-
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comrades who died when the ship's
powder magazine was hit by a
Japanese bomb.
"Your return here to the scene of
the attack reminds Americans that
Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was as
much a victim of negligence as it
was the victim of Japanese bombs
and bullets," said remarks prepared
for delivery this morning by Adm.
James D. Watkins, commander in
chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
"You are the human element, the
stuff of emotion," he said. "Through
you, Americans may remember
again that freedom undefended is
freedom endangered."
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