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When President Reagan launched an air strike on Libya last April few could have predicted it would create an overcrowding problem at Harvard Summer School...
...justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they can bad-mouth the society that produces the stuff, they don't feel so bad about indulging in its exports." But even then, apolitical American targets are not always off limits. After the U.S. bombing of Libya in April, a mob in Barcelona stoned a local McDonald's. Last year Peruvian Marxists sprayed graffiti and burned tables at three of Lima's five Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants...
...foreign reaction to South African border raids. We cannot be held to ransom by the U.S. or the international community when it comes to the protection of our security. We simply do not understand how it is possible for the U.S. to attack bases and terrorists in Libya, to proclaim that the U.S. will protect U.S. interests and citizens against any form of terrorism wherever it occurs, and then urge all governments in the world to do the same, but when we do it and, with all respect, do it more professionally than they do, the U.S. blames...
Carrington served chiefly as a steadying hand. Since then, NATO hasn't been in the media nearly as much. Some analysts see this lower profile as a tribute to Carrington: "The alliance doesn't make news when it works," says Haass. The minor crises--the dispute over action against Libya, the sporadic battling of Greece and Turkey, the near departure of Spain from NATO--haven't worsened, and internal discussions about tactical and strategic issues haven't deteriorated...
...when a number of terrorist incidents in Europe followed the bombings in Libya, "we were sitting on [the Europe trip]," Dostart says. They picked up travel pamphlets about Mexico and Alaska and heard out their parents' concerns. Very recently they concluded that terrorism in Europe had sufficiently subsided, and bought non-refundable round-trip tickets for Paris...