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...week these uncertainties stoked tensions toward a fever point. It began with American officials pointing a menacing finger of suspicion at Libya as instigator of the bombing of a West Berlin disco that left an American serviceman and a Turkish woman dead. Then the Pentagon cryptically noted that the Sixth Fleet, which had scattered after the Gulf of Sidra battle, was steaming back toward Libya. Almost simultaneously, President Reagan at his Wednesday-night news conference called Gaddafi "this mad dog of the Middle East" and proclaimed that the U.S. would "respond" whenever the perpetrator of a specific terrorist act could...
Shortly after the blast, and with increasing vehemence as the week continued, U.S. officials claimed that this time they had Gaddafi dead to rights. In a Wednesday speech in Atlanta, for example, General Bernard Rogers, supreme NATO commander in Europe, said the U.S. had "indisputable evidence" that the bombing was the work of a Libyan terrorist network. Though no one would disclose it publicly, the evidence is known to consist largely of intercepted messages from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to the "people's bureau" (as Libya calls its diplomatic missions) in East Berlin, which is believed to have dispatched...
...Farmer Kevin Main's farrowing barn near Altona, Ill., the newborn piglets lay on their sides, their tiny feet paddling frantically in the air. A day later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that...
Bush to Michigan: DROP DEAD, read the headline over the lead editorial in the Detroit News. Scoffed Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker: "This sounded more like the concerns of a Congressman from Houston than the Vice President...
While in places like Detroit--where headlines screamed "Bush to Michigan: Drop Dead!"--Bush's fall has been total, in other 'burbs too, the sentiment is rising against Bush, who is nominally at least the Vice President of all of the United States, not just his favorite ones...