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...task force of 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...
...used this word in one conversation and I quickly found myself embroiled in an argument over Reagan's "adventure" into Libya. And it was at this point that I realised how weak an understanding there was between...
...bombing of Libya in April, in what was described as retaliation for terrorism, prompted the Soviets to cancel a Shevardnadze visit in May. Subsequently, Reagan announced he no longer would observe the unratified 1979 SALT II treaty, which imposed ceilings on various U.S. and Soviet long-range nuclear weapons...
...claimed that William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat, had been killed to avenge an Israeli air raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia. Buckley's death remains unconfirmed. In April another American captive, Librarian Peter Kilburn, and two Britons were killed in retaliation for the U.S. air attack on Libya. That leaves three American hostages: Anderson, 38, an Associated Press correspondent; David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Jihad's chief objective seems to be the release of 17 people jailed in Kuwait for bombing...
...dialogue with Israel, Hassan won the praise of the Reagan Administration. He may also have prevented a cutback in the $140 million in aid that Morocco receives from the U.S. Congressional leaders had been unhappy with Hassan ever since he signed a largely meaningless "treaty of union" with Libya in August...