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This time, however, there was a major difference. While the first three incidents occurred when Washington decided to swat the desert dictator, the latest confrontation was wholly unexpected. When the Libyan MiGs were destroyed after they persistently pursued two Navy F-14 fighters protecting the carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, the U.S. found itself on the defensive not only militarily but also in its international relations...
...announcement two weeks ago that the carrier Theodore Roosevelt had left Norfolk, Va., to join the Kennedy in the Mediterranean inspired fresh rumors of an impending U.S. attack on the Rabta plant. In that heated atmosphere, the Libyans could well have succumbed to nervousness and overreacted to the presence of the Kennedy off their coast...
...Kennedy was sailing to the east last Wednesday. The carrier was near Crete, more than 600 miles away from the Rabta plant and 120 miles off recognized Libyan territorial waters, when the unexpected combat situation arose. Even the Libyans had to know that the F-14s were fighters on routine patrol, not bombers carrying out an attack...
...unfriendly skies of airline competition, Braniff has been buffeted severely but refuses to stay grounded for long. The Dallas-based carrier endured a bout with bankruptcy in 1981-82, and has changed hands three times since then. Last week Braniff chairman William McGee announced an ambitious plan to triple the size of the airline's fleet and join the ranks of major U.S. carriers...
...Texas airline will deploy many of the jets at its two principal hub cities: Kansas City and Orlando. The carrier last year bought 16 Kansas City airport gates from ailing Eastern Airlines. Braniff also aims to move into other airports neglected by the major carriers, but is keeping mum about which ones...