The World - News from Nov. 25, 1988
A top aide to Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi began a visit to Italy that is seen as part of a Libyan campaign to shed its image of supporting terrorism. Abdel-Salam Jalloud is the highest-ranking Libyan to visit Rome officially since the firing of a Libyan missile at an Italian island hours after the U.S. bombing of Tripoli in April, 1986. Jalloud conferred with Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita and is also expected to see Pope John Paul II, whom he has met before on previous visits. Both Libyan and Italian sources recently have indicated that Col. Kadafi is eager to have better relations with the West and sees his country’s former colonizer as a vehicle to respectability and to prospects of expanded economic ties with Western Europe.
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