The World - News from May 27, 1986

Abdel-Salam Jalloud, second in command to Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, arrived in the Soviet Union for the first high-level contacts between the two countries since the U.S. attack on Libya last month. The official Soviet news agency Tass said only that Jalloud was on a working visit. But since Defense Minister Sergei L. Sokolov was among the senior officials greeting him at the Moscow airport, it was suggested that Jalloud’s talks will involve military matters, possibly a request for new weapons purchases. The Soviet Union is Libya’s biggest arms supplier.