The World - News from Feb. 3, 1986

A longtime Arab-American activist, M.T. Mehdi, defied President Reagan’s order banning travel to, and commerce with Libya and flew there on a lecture tour. Saying that the few Americans remaining in Libya in defiance of Reagan’s order are preparing a U.S. court appeal, Mehdi, head of the American Arab Relations Committee, asserted that Reagan’s order is unconstitutional and has only “offered Kadafi unprecedented prestige throughout the Afro-Asian world.”