Soviets Denounce Anti-Libyan Moves, Warn of Peace Threat

The Soviet Union on Thursday denounced anti-Libyan measures taken by the United States and warned that they pose a serious threat to world peace.

Tass, the official Soviet news agency, charged that the United States and Israel appear to be preparing armed attacks against Libya despite Libya’s denial of involvement in terrorist raids on airports in Rome and Vienna.

Tass said the Kremlin supports Libya and condemns the economic sanctions imposed by President Reagan this week against the government of Col. Moammar Kadafi.

“It is expected in Soviet leading circles . . . that the United States will seriously weigh the dangerous consequences which a continuation of its policy” may bring, Tass said.

‘Overweening Partner’

The United States, it said, should curb its “overweening partner--Israel”--from carrying out any military attack on Libya.

By imposing sanctions against Libya, Tass said, the United States is “flagrantly violating the United Nations Charter and disregarding basic norms of international law.” It said the United States “has resorted to full-scale economic aggression against a sovereign Arab state.”

The Pentagon and the CIA, it said, have already selected bombing targets in Libya, and the U.S. Navy has positioned warships off Libya’s shores.

“Wide-scale military preparations of the United States and Israel in the Mediterranean are fraught with a serious threat not only to Libya but to other states of that region, too,” the agency said. “Such actions are destabilizing the situation in that part of the world.”

Condemns Terrorism

The Tass statement conceded that terrorism as such deserves to be condemned and added:

“It is necessary to pool the efforts of the world community to put an end, once and for all, to terrorist acts that entail a senseless loss of life and disrupt the normal course of international contacts.”

But it said that responsibility for the “rampage of terrorism” should be placed on the United States for following what it called a policy of state terrorism toward Libya for many years.

The Soviet Union is a major supplier of arms to Libya. Kadafi recently visited Moscow and talked with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other top officials.

In another development Thursday, Anatoly Gromyko, son of Soviet President Andrei A. Gromyko and director of the Africa Institute here, said that the overthrow of Kadafi is “a cherished dream of U.S. imperialism.”

‘Unbridled Hysteria’

He said in an article for the newspaper Soviet Russia that “the purpose of the unbridled hysteria unleashed by the Western mass media around Libya is to present in a favorable light the armed interference in its internal affairs which the United States is preparing.”

The Soviet Union, which supports the Arab countries in their running dispute with Israel, has refused to say what action it would take in the event of a U.S. attack on Libya. Nor did the Tass statement, the strongest criticism to date of U.S. policy toward Libya, make any mention of a Soviet countermove.

It charged that the United States is “in every way pushing Israel” to mount a military move against Libya, adding:

“International public opinion is being prepared beforehand for the possibility of continuing bandit acts, such as those staged by the Israeli military against Iraq and Tunisia.”