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...challenge to Gaddafi draws fire-and swift U.S. retaliation
...Tomcats, the U.S. Navy's hottest and most versatile fighter planes, flew combat air patrol, or CAP in military parlance, watching for intruding aircraft and warning off the unwary. Since the landfall to the south was Libya, led by the unpredictable and often hostile Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and since U.S. and French aircraft had been harassed over the Mediterranean by Libyan planes, the U.S. pilots were ready for trouble. To the north of the F-14s flew two carrier-based E-2C Hawkeye radar planes, smaller counterparts of the Air Force AWACS, spotting approaching aircraft and ships...
...residents." He called on the U.S. Government to investigate Chen's death and to determine whether campus spies are violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. There is growing evidence that other governments intimidate their nationals in the U.S. Last year a Libyan student in Colorado, critical of the Gaddafi regime, was wounded by an assassin. In Utah two weeks ago, a Libyan student was killed...
...well. And who are these nations? They are the unstable, the zealous, the military-controlled, the lunatic-led. They do not share the U.S.-Soviet diplomatic history. If the Americans and the Soviets were to cry "Enough!" then at least we might be spared the sight of Colonel Gaddafi grinning before a bouquet of microphones, about to make an important announcement on behalf of Libya. SALT II faltered; let us have SALT...
Joel Lisker, chief counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, doubts that the number of former agents involved in such traffic is large. "But it doesn't need to be," he adds. "Terpil and Wilson alone could keep Gaddafi and Idi Amin supplied with everything they need." Lisker suspects that the CIA probably did know about the Wilson and Terpil dealings with the Libyan dictator, explaining, "Gaddafi is the No. 1 guy the CIA wants to get next to. He's a bad guy -and so are Wilson and Terpil. How else could...