When Libya's poison-gas plant burned down last week, many people were relieved.

The Swiss official said his Government first received reports that Krebs might be involved in a project to build a poison-gas plant in late 1986.

A1 The German chemical company accused of having helped Libya build a poison-gas plant is a modest enterprise with headquarters in the city of Lahr.

An official of the chemical company accused of helping Libya build a poison-gas plant was reported in critical condition today after apparently attempting suicide.

Even in its hometown of Lahr, Imhausen-Chemie was hardly a household name before Jan. 1, when the company was publicly accused of having helped Libya build a poison-gas plant.

A10 Customs officials in West Germany raided 3 companies and 12 private homes in search of evidence that Libya received aid in building a poison-gas plant.

Somebody, for instance, sold Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi the makings of a poison-gas plant.

West German customs officials today raided 3 companies and 12 private homes in search of evidence that Libya received aid in building what is said to be a poison-gas plant.

Patient squeezing will get him to close his poison-gas plants and stop building nuclear bombs.

News of the poison-gas plant 40 miles south of Tripoli has been bruited about in the world press for months.