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...politics,' he said. And we did. He has a remarkable, nimble mind. The hours with him and Wanda were like reliving not only the history of music in this century but also reviewing the spectacle of war and peace from the Russian Revolution to the agony over Nicaragua and Libya...
...recent engagements with Libya have highlighted another, and perhaps more important, role of carriers in an age of less than total war. The willingness of Reagan to go it alone--to use force unilaterally without the aid and approval of U.S. allies--has made the Navy's floating air bases almost indispensable. Carrier diplomacy is hardly a novel idea; in about half the 250-odd shows of force by the U.S. since World War II, carriers steamed to the scene. But in the past the U.S. has usually been able to rely on its allies to provide forward staging areas...
...across Europe, Libyans suddenly found themselves under diplomatic fire last week. West Germany told more than half the 41 representatives stationed at Libya's People's Bureau in Bonn that they had seven days to leave the country. Britain deported 22 Libyan students suspected of activism and informed more than 300 others that they would have to leave shortly. Spain demanded that eleven Libyans quit the country. The Italians arrested a former Libyan diplomat for plotting to kill U.S. Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb and announced a 20% cut in Libya's diplomatic corps. And the French expelled four Libyans...
Just as important as the diplomatic offensive was the fact that the Western allies presented an almost united front. Only one week earlier, when Washington mounted a nighttime air strike on Libya, its most devastating bombing attack since Viet Nam, the U.S. had been actively supported by none of its European friends except British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Rifts in the alliance still remain, as evidenced by the European Community's refusal to close the People's Bureaus altogether, which Washington and London had urged (see following story). Nonetheless, the diplomatic assault on Libyans suggested that these differences...
...response to the concerted campaign by their antagonists, Libya and its friends quickly mounted a counteroffensive. Gaddafi called Reagan a "new Nazi," and a Libyan official claimed that bombing attacks in Europe were being prepared by CIA agents and their Israeli colleagues to make his country look bad. Within 24 hours of that unlikely charge, an explosive went off in central London, outside a six-story building where both British Airways and American Express maintain offices. Luckily, the detonation came in the quiet moments before dawn. Had it occurred a few hours later, said the police, it would have caused...