The World - News from June 6, 1985
A Libyan diplomat, accused by the FBI of plotting against Libyan dissidents in the United States, has been ordered to leave the country within 24 hours, the State Department said. The Libyan, Farhat Tibar, 32, was described as an administrative attache to his government’s United Nations mission. State Department spokesman Edward P. Djerejian gave no details of the alleged plot. Libya’s embassy in Washington was closed in May, 1981, and its diplomats expelled amid U.S. accusations that Libyan dissidents were being harassed.
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