Order to leave Libya annoys
NZPA-NYT Tripoli Some of the scores of Americans living in Libya reacted with a mixture of anger and resignation to President Reagan’s order that they leave the country by February 1. “I’m thunderstruck,” said an American who has worked for more than a decade for Oasis Oil in Libya. “I’ve got no earthly idea what I will do.” He asked that his name not be used.
Mr Reagan, discussing his order at a nationally televised news conference on Tuesday evening, said that the Americans in Libya would have to be considered “potential hostages.” One oil company executive said, “I will probably leave now for security reasons, but the threat is coming from my own Government, not from the Libyans. I don’t want to be bombed in an American military attack here.” “I’m safe and I’m happy here,” said another American who works for Mobil Oil. “This crisis is in Ronald Reagan’s brain.”
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Press, 10 January 1986, Page 6
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