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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...
...argued that the frustration of attempts to bring about the formation of a Palestinian homeland has left Arabs so outraged that they have resorted to terrorism. But in the case of Libya, the Palestinian question had precious little to do with terrorism. The bombing of a West German disco or the proposal to buy U.S. hostages from Lebanon were state-ordered acts, not expressions of violence by angry Palestinian youths...
...swinging person," says the Connecticut resident, who wished to remain anonymous. "I'm an academic and an intellectual, a museum curator. I'm not into the disco scene...
...About five years ago this stuff was really popular. You could get skateboard stickers in Cap'n Crunch," recalls one salesman at Dave's Bike Infirmary, a bicycle shop that has carried skateboards since 1976. "I don't know why--it just suddenly faded. Maybe roller disco or break dancing had something to do with that," he adds...
Those pastel police from TV's Miami Vice never leave the station house without some trendy disco music. Now millions of their fans are hopping to the same cop pop. An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month. Last week the record reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine chart, propelled by two Top Ten singles, the instrumental Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer and You Belong to the City by Glenn Frey. While movie sound tracks like last summer...