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The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 15, 1981
Washington Ways
House
Work
The Hit Man' & the
Old Libyan Embassy
By Donnie Radcliffe
"The Libyan government has spent'
upwards of a half-million dollars get-
ing its old embassy on Wyoming
Avenue into shape as an official gov-
ernment guest house.
Now, in intelligence reports con-
pining the names of an alleged Lib-
an "hit squad" being sent to the
United States to target the president
ind other high government officials,
the name of international terrorist
"Carlos" Carlos Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez - has surfaced.
Attorney Richard : Shadyac,
spokesman for the Libyan govern-
ment, jokes about the idea of Carlos
coming to town. Raising the specter
of the infamous Carlos is "a little
Shopworn," he chuckles. "But if Car -..
Tos comes to town he's a pretty fas-
cinating character so maybe we'll
put him at the mansion."
'Carlos wasn't exactly who the Lib-
yans had in mind when they con-
tracted with. Georgetown Design
Group to renovate the mansion.
"Before the American government
told the Libyan diplomats here to
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leave last May, the Libyans were
hoping it would be the ambassador's
residence,", says Shadyac.
Shadyac says he finds it ludicrous
that Israeli intelligence is apparently
furnishing the information so the
United States can discredit Libyan
leader Muammar Qaddafi. He says i,
the United States hopes Qaddafi
won't become chairman of the Or-been resealed ) and the owner ; has
ganization of African Unity, "but
just the opposite is happening."
What Shadyac doesn't find ludi-
crous is how the sealed and locked
former Libyan People's Bureau on
2Ist Street NW was "violated" this
fall while it was under the "care, cus-
tody and control" of the U.S. govern-
ment.
"Allegedly, the landlord broke
into the place and violated the sanc-
tity of the premises, and allegedly
an inventory was taken," says
Shadyac, who filed a letter of protest
with the State Department. "The
U.S. said it was very sorry and re-
gretted the incident and has taken
back control. Now the State Depart-
ment wants me, as trustee of the
Libyan government, to take over the
premises and remove all the prop-
.erty."
Associate Chief of Protocol Rich-
ard Gookin says when the Libyans"
lease ran out in mid-October, the
building's owner, the Washington
Circle Theater Corp., sent a letter to
the secretary of state stating the
need to enter the building and win-
terize it.
"The letter arrived late one Friday
afternoon, but because it was ad-
dressed to the secretary of state, no
one saw it until early in the following
week," says Gookin. "In it, they said
they wanted to enter the building
the next morning, which they did."
It was Shadyac, though, who
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attention when he noticed the front'
door standing open, though it had ..
been sealed "ritualistically" with wax
'and the Libyan government seal last
May.
Gookin says the building has since
agreed not to enter it without State
Department permission. He also says
the State Department is trying to
work out a solution between the Lib-
yans and the owners, who want to!
repossess it.
Part of the difficulty is that the
Libyans have no "protecting power,"
or foreign government representing
their interests here, says. Gookin.
But Shadyac says the Americans
refuse to accept the country the Lib-
yans designated, the United Arab
Emirates, creating a kind of diplo -.
matic Catch 22.
"The Americans," says Shadyac,
"are playing very hard ball."
If well-heeled friends of Barbara
and George Bush . hadn't come
through with $187,000 in donationsi
to redecorate the Vice President's
House, the vice president was going
to get stuck with the tab, says his
wife.
They especially needed chairs, she
told reporters invited in for a look at
the results, which included new car-
peting and upholstery. "So I just or
dered, as cheaply as possible." Two
weeks later when a friend called to
ask if she could help raise money to
redo the house, Barbara Bush ac-
cepted, citing it as an example of
what having "faith" can do.
"Otherwise," she said, chuckling,
"it was all going to be charged to
Scratch Olivia de Havilland as
the mysterious buyer of the Francis,
Biddle house in Georgetown that
sold for $800,000 at auction this fall.
She seemed to fit one description of
the anonymous buyer circulating
around town - that she lived in
France, but was not -French. Now
from de Havilland, who in the past
has considered settling here, comes
the final word: She can't buy any
thing unless she first sells her house
in Paris. And the way the wealthy
social French are fleeing socialist
France these days, there are plenty
of those already on the market.
"You're where you deserve to be,
on top of everything," said Nancy:
Thurmond, presenting packages to!
.two of her and B.A. Bentsen'sfa -*
vorite" Washington journalists dur->
ing a coffee they gave at the Four y
Seasons Hotel.
"In case you all didn't knowit, I'm
an angel," said Betty Beale, peeking"
into her package to find a soft sculp"
ture Christmas angel whose face was"
an embroidered caricature of Beale's
(the needlework of public relations
whiz Mary Pettus). "If you looked
awful, if I didn't like the party ot if
there was hair in the soup," Beale"
continued, "I didn't mention it."
"I can't pretend to be quite as nice
as Betty," said "Ymelda Dixon, a
colleague of Beale's on the new:
defunct Washington Star. In my;
book, I'm telling it not the way L
wrote it, but the way it really was.
Everybody in this room is excepted."
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