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Libyan diplomats
From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration nments each expelled four Libyan representatives
yesterday ordered the expulsion of all Libyan for their alleged campaign of intimidation against
diplomats in Washington, citing a wide range of exiled opponents of Col. Moammar Khadafy, the
Libyan provocations and misconduct, including sup- Libyan ruler.
port for international terrorism. At the White House, assistant press secretary Mort
State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said Allin said while the U.S. gets about 10 percent of its
the administration also was concerned by a "general imported oil from Libya - 640,000 barrels a day -
pattern of unacceptable conduct" by the Libyan "We see no reason why this should affect the oil
People's Bureau in Washington, which is "contrary relationship."
to internationally acceptable standards of behavior." HOWEVER, AMERICAN FIRMS operating in oil-
The Libyan government refers to its embassies rich Libya have been informed to "draw down their
abroad as People's Bureaus. personnel," Fischer said.
"FROM THE FIRST DAYS of the administration, The chief of the Libyan mission in the U.S., Ali Ah-
both the president and Secretary of State Alexander med Houderi, was imformed of the expulsion order
Haig have made known their very real concern about during a meeting with Undersecretary of State
a wide range of Libyan provoTations and misconduct, Walter Stoessel.
including support for international terrorism," Houderi told reporters afterward the order would
Fischer said. be complied with, but he had no idea why it was
Last year, eight Libyan expatriates were murdered issued. "We were the scapegoats," he said.
in Great Britain, Italy and Greece, and a Libyan "Somebody has to be a scapegoat for whatever ex-
dissident student was wounded in gunfire in cuse."
Colorado. In May 1980, the U.S. and British gover- THE LIBYAN REPRESENTATIVE declared that
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expelled
"We are not reactionary. We do not export
revolution. The only thing we seek is friendship. We
came here to build bridges between our people and
yours. We don't regret a minute we spent here. The
only thing we regret is not finishing the job of building
those bridges."
Fischer said the action reduces U.S. relations with
Libya to the lowest levels consistent with maintenan-
ce of diplomatic relations.
He said the U.S. would give Libya permission to
open a diplomatic interests section here if the U.S.
were accorded a similar privilege in Tripoli. At
present, Iraq and Cuba maintain interests sections in
Washington instead of embassies.
BECAUSE OF THE POOR STATE of diplomatic
relations, the U.S. has had no diplomatic personnel
stationed in Tripoli for more than a year.
Fischer refused to specify the types of Libyan ac-
tivities the United States finds objectionable.
However, the administration has condemned Libya's
military intervention in Chad which had led to the
establishement of a pro-Libyan government there.
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POLL SHOWS MOST MEN AND WOMEN AGREE:
'Working parents hurt family'
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NEW YORK (AP) - A majority of
men and women believe the family
gets hurt when both parents work out-
side the home, according to a study
released yesterday.
At the same time, "the potential im-
pact of family life on work seems to be
as great or greater than the impact of
work on the family" because
businesses will have to adapt to family
demands, said the report by Lou Harris
and Associates Inc.
THE POLLING FIRM said com-
panies "will come under increasing
pressure to adopt more flexible benefits
and work policies" to make it easier for
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employees to manage job and family
successfully.
The findings come at a time when
more and more women are in the labor
force - regardless of whether they are
married or have children.
The Department of Labor says, for
example, that more than half of all
married women living with their
husbands have paying jobs. As of Mar-
ch 1980, almost 57 percent of women
with children under 18 were in the labor
force; 53 percent of the children under
18 had mothers who worked outside the
home.
THE SURVEY ON family attitudes
toward work was conducted by Harris
for General Mills Inc. It consisted of in-
terviews last November and December
with six groups: 1,503 adult family
members, 235 teen-agers, 104 personnel
executives from major corporations, 56
labor leaders, 49 traditionalists or
leaders in the "pro-family" movement,
and 52 feminists, active in women's
rights organizations.
The pollsters found expected
disagreements among the groups on
some issues, including the effect of the
growing trend toward dual wage-
earner families.
Fifty-two percent of adult family
members, for example, said there had
been a negative impact on the family as
a result of both parents working. Twen-
ty-eight percent said there had been a
positive impact; 14 percent said there
had been no impact at all; and 6 percent
were not sure.
SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT of the labor
leaders, 60 percent of the personnel
executives and 100 percent of the
traditionalists agreed that the impact
had been negative. But 67 percent of the
feminists said the effect was positive.
Women who work outside the home
were split. Forty-fpur percent said ther
impact was negative; 37 percent said it
was positive; 14 percent said there was
no impact; and 5 percent were unsure.
Majorities of most of the groups in-
terviewed said children are more likely
to get into trouble if both parents have
paying jobs. Only 19 percent of the
feminists took this view, however.
The personnel executives, labor
leaders and feminists generally endor-
sed the same programs.
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