Word: libya
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Another U.S. air strike against Libya? Not quite. This time the bombs fell on a mock target near Wadi Natrun, some 50 miles northwest of Cairo, during U.S.-Egyptian military exercises last week. But the explosions that jarred the desert floor helped set off diplomatic reverberations in Libya and around the world...
Diplomatic moves were afoot as well. The White House confirmed that 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...
...response, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the obvious: "We certainly have reason to believe that the Libyan state . . . has not forsaken its desire to create terrorist activities worldwide, and the capability is still there to do so." He also declared, "We will employ all appropriate measures to cause Libya to cease its terrorist policies...
...insurgents braced themselves for an expected assault from government forces, supported, the rebels claimed, by 13,000 Libyan troops gathered on the border. Though Sadiq denies any ties to Tripoli, there seems little doubt that he is drifting politically leftward. In early August the new Prime Minister visited Libya, which had been an enemy of the pro-American Nimeiri, and later he traveled to Moscow. Said Information Minister Mohammed Tewfiq Ahmed: "We cannot afford to have bad relations with any of the superpowers. In the past the Soviets built some hospitals and factories. If they can help with agriculture, education...
...sports complex. Miraculously, casualties were limited to two injured women and a slightly damaged building. Several hours later the Unified Nasserite Organization, a previously unknown group, claimed in Beirut that it had carried out the raid primarily in retaliation for British support of the U.S. bombing of Libya. American F-111 jets used in the raid took off from British soil...