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Four months after the U.S. bombing raid against Tripoli and Benghazi on April 15, attention was suddenly focused again on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime. The Forrestal, during maneuvers with Egyptian warships, canceled a planned rest stop in Israel without explanation. Eighteen U.S. Air Force F-111 fighter-bombers flew into Britain, from where identical planes had bombed Tripoli last spring. Intelligence sources reported that Gaddafi has resumed plans to terrorize American citizens in Europe, and U.S. officials warned that he would be punished anew by air strikes...
...Vernon Walters, shifting from his role as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., will travel to Europe this week to explore the effectiveness of present economic sanctions against Libya and possibly urge that stronger measures be taken. Syria's President Hafez Assad turned up in Benghazi to meet publicly with Gaddafi and declared that Syria "stands with all its potential by the side of Libya . . . to face the threats of America...
...federal and local law-enforcement officials raided two hideouts of the notorious street gang El Rukn and uncovered an arsenal of sophisticated weapons, including an M72 light antitank weapon. According to a local television station, federal investigators believe El Rukn had offered terrorist services to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi...
...carrier John F. Kennedy, from which the President and Mrs. Reagan surveyed the harbor and the Friday-night fireworks. These leviathans provoked a different reaction, a buoyant chauvinism. As a crowded Staten Island ferryboat passed by the Kennedy, one sightseer called out, to cheers and laughter, "Come on over, Gaddafi...
...doddering old man but as a weird presidential version of one of the "action figures" with which children of the '80s play: G.I. Joe, Captain America, He-Man. Saturday-morning TV dialogue emanates from the Oval Office: "Quick, Cap, there's not a moment to lose! The evil Gaddafi is attacking our fleet inside the 'line of death...