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...fared little better in its long battle against terrorism. After the Administration launched an air raid on Muammar Gaddafi's Libya in April, the masked face of terrorism was mostly absent from the world's airports and alleyways. Five months later, though, the threat was back with a bloody vengeance. Bombs erupted in downtown Paris, men with machine guns stormed a synagogue in Istanbul, four Palestinian hijackers held a Pan American plane hostage for 18 hours in Karachi, and 17 more foreigners were kidnaped in Lebanon. Many leaders looked to another kind of pressure -- that of economic sanctions -- to push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Chad's 20-year civil war took a startling, bloody turn last week as some 2,000 rebels battled three Libyan columns in Chad's Tibesti mountain region. The guerrillas, who earlier helped Libya gain a foothold in northern Chad, broke with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi after his troops shot and wounded Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei last October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: Desert War Heats Up | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

France last week joined the increasingly international battle by air- dropping supplies to the rebels, who are now backed by Chad President Hissene Habre. Meanwhile, the first of some $15 million in U.S. emergency military aid arrived last week in the Chad capital, N'Djamena, for the fight against Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: Desert War Heats Up | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...past few years, and small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that lie as graveyards to unpaid mortgages. Everybody seems to know everything everywhere. The television news displays a riot in an overcrowded Tennessee prison, a newly discovered poem by Shakespeare, an earthquake in Mexico, a bombing in Libya, starvation in Africa, a dinosaur bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...IRAN ARMS scandal has become the biggest media event of recent years--far surpassing the smash Libya Bombing Show, the shuttle explosion and even the New York City "crack" epidemic. Not a day goes by without a headline-making revelation of questionable White House conduct...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Damaged Control | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

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