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Ever since the West Berlin discotheque bombing in early April, TIME's national security experts, along with the rest of the U.S., had watched for signs of whether the U.S. would respond and how. Two weeks ago, as officials uncovered harder and harder evidence of Libyan involvement, Washington Correspondents Bruce van Voorst and Michael Duffy became increasingly convinced of U.S. willingness to strike back. Their colleague David Halevy confirmed from intelligence sources that the White House was concerned about signs of Libyan plans for further provocation. Says Duffy: "We scrambled to confirm the exact time and nature of the attack...
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, disapproving of the raid, warned that it might provoke outbursts of "primitive anti-Americanism." Indeed, demonstrators marched and shouted Saturday in Rome, West Berlin and even London, where Prime Minister Thatcher came under scathing attack from critics who accused her of exposing her countrymen to terrorist vengeance...
...complaisant in responding to the U.S. requests. Before permitting the use of the air bases, she insisted that the raid be justifiable as self-defense. She was shown what one aide said were "compelling" reports from U.S. and British intelligence that Gaddafi had ordered the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque and planned a wide range of other terrorist activities. She also demanded promises from Reagan that the U.S. warplanes would confine their attack to "clearly defined targets related to terrorism" and avoid widespread civilian casualties...
...Washington Post quoted U.S. officials as saying that within minutes of an April 5 explosion that blew up a West Berlin discotheque and killed an American serviceman, the East Berlin Libyan "People's Bureau" sent a message to headquarters in Tripoli saying an operation was "happening...
...Palestinian arrested in the West Berlin nightclub bombing has been identified as the brother of a man accused in Britain of trying to bomb an Israeli airliner, West Berlin officials said...