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There I was in the cockpit, hurtling toward the coast of Libya at 500 m.p.h. My mission: to drop a couple of 100-lb. Maverick missiles on a terrorist training camp near the Libyan port of Benghazi. My craft: the new supersecret F-19, a plane so hard to pick up on radar that I felt sure I could swoop in and blast Gaddafi's buddies without getting shot down myself. Suddenly, I saw something that shattered my composure. High over my stubby left wing, a Soviet-built MiG-25 Foxbat fighter was headed my way. Did the enemy know...
...took a couple of hits, and my plane went into a dive. Before bailing out, I loosed a Maverick in the general direction of Benghazi, unfortunately destroying a nearby village in the process. But as I drifted toward Libya in my parachute, I knew my next move. All I had to do was tap a few keys, go back to the program's main menu and choose another mission. This time I think I'll intercept that Soviet Tu-95D Bear reconnaissance plane heading for East Germany and blast...
Given the bloody history of recent terrorist attacks and the resulting U.S. bombing raid on Tripoli and Benghazi in April, American reporters had good reason to go after the story. But they were chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. The Washington Post claimed last week that the rumors over Libya had been instigated by the Administration in a "secret and unusual campaign of deception" to destabilize Muammar Gaddafi...
...scheme cannot be dismissed as just a pipe dream. Last month Gaddafi opened a plant at Brega, south of Benghazi, where some of the 73-ton pipeline sections will be made. Price Bros. of Dayton, a company that is prevented by U.S. restrictions from operating in Libya, provided most of the technology to build the plant. The main contractor, the Dong-Ah Construction Co. of South Korea, is bringing in 8,000 workers to make and lay the pipes. The project seems to be unaffected by Washington's ban on U.S. exports to Libya or by President Reagan's January...
Some 270 wells are being sunk in the Tazerbo and Sarir areas, more than 300 miles south of Benghazi. Plans call for additional wells to be drilled south of Tripoli and for more then half of Libya's 1,100-mile coastline to be linked by the pipeline. Later, irrigation schemes, food-processing plants and factories are to be added...