The World - News from Feb. 8, 1988

Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi said he expects U.S.-Libya relations to improve after the November presidential election, but he warned that Americans should get out of the Arab world “for their own security.” Kadafi told the Washington Post that Americans “must have learned some lessons from the Reagan presidency” and that tensions between Tripoli and Washington have lessened in recent months. Post correspondents, along with Post Co. Chairwoman Katharine Graham, interviewed Kadafi in Algeria. Asked if he could intervene to free foreign hostages held in Lebanon, Kadafi said that Americans had to understand “they will be the price” paid for U.S. policy in the Middle East.