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...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, which several of us concluded was imminent." Guided by this reporting, TIME's editors decided that the near certainty of an attack required...
Asked point-blank at his Wednesday press conference to confirm or deny reports that he had already decided on a military response, Reagan grew visibly uncomfortable and replied, "This is a question that, as I say, is like talking about battle plans or something. It's not a question that I feel I could answer." In fact, the President that morning had approved a tentative decision to launch an attack. The decision was made by the National Security Council, meeting in the Oval Office (minus Vice President George Bush and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who were both traveling...
...from his history, Moammar Khadafy will not be intimidated. The greater likelihood is that waving the mailed Western fist over Libya will inflame anti-American passions and inspire an escalation of Arab terrorism. Where the populace perceives America as the evil aggressor, civilian casualties and piles of rubble only confirm the hostility...
...agree, and said in the article, that there are in fact some athletes at Harvard who confirm the scholar-athlete stereotype. I refuse to be misread as lumping all athletes together in the negative stereotype...
...However, I don't believe the letter-writers would deny that there are some athletes at Harvard who do in fact confirm the negative stereotype...