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...Bild Zeitung proclaimed ATOM ANGST, while authorities issued conflicting orders. In the state of North Rhine- Westphalia, citizens were urged to keep their children out of sandboxes, to avoid touching the ground with anything but their feet and to protect themselves from rain. Yet in Bavaria officials saw no harm in letting children play in sand as long as they kept it out of their mouths. Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann sought to ease fears like those that caused almost 1,000 anxious TV viewers to call a panel of experts with such questions as whether they should jog, play tennis...
State Department officials have argued that his talk would harm U.S. foreign policy by giving the appearance that the U.S. does not object to the PLO policies...
...hastily put up a hail of antiaircraft fire, but their Soviet-made SAMs, fired without radar guidance, were wildly inaccurate. "We forced the Libyans to turn off their radar," says Navy Secretary John Lehman. "They knew if they turned them on to guide their missiles, they would get a HARM down the throat." Nor was any defense mounted by the Libyan air force, whose pilots are notoriously poor night flyers. Five F-111s were assigned to hit Colonel Gaddafi's compound, and four of them dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. bombs. The hope, said a senior Administration official...
What prevented the Libyan missiles from inflicting real damage was the fact that most of them were fired without radar guidance. "We forced the Libyans to turn off their radar," says Lehman. "If they turned them on to guide their missiles, they would get a HARM down the throat." Nor was any defense mounted by the Libyan air force, whose pilots are notoriously poor night flyers. Military intelligence intercepted a radio transmission of air force headquarters in Tripoli pleading with a base commander in Benghazi shortly before the attack to get his craft in the air. The commander's reply...
...students' congress, was awakened by gunshots outside his small home in Atteridgeville, a black township near Pretoria. Seconds later, a marauder hurled a hand grenade at his house, blowing a hole in one wall. Morotola, who had been sleeping in a room in another part of the house, escaped harm, but his 18-year-old cousin was injured in the blast...