Arab satellite sale The Reagan Administration is going ahead with a plan to sell sophisticated communications satellite equipment to an Arab consortium that includes Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, sources say. The proposal is certain to revive the kind of debate that accompanied the Administration’s $8.5 billion airbone warning and control system planes and jet weaponry to Saudi Arabia last month. The commercial telephone, telex and television system, to cost about $134 million, was sidetracked two weeks ago when the State Department conceded that it was not prepared to answer Congressional concerns about potential military application—Washington. - .
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