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Twenty-five students in a Democratic Club-sponsored roundtable discussion last night unanimously agreed the U.S. was justified in taking some action against Libya but disagreed over the aims and effects of last Monday's bombing of Libyan military targets...
While most of the participants said the U.S. strike was necessary in order to show America's determination to combat terrorism, some said the attack would only unify Arab nations and goad Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy into future terrorism against U.S. citizens...
...Berlin when the bomb decimated La Belle disco. "We were about 15 minutes too late," NATO Commander General Bernard Rogers told a school audience in Atlanta last week. According to high-ranking intelligence officials, the U.S. intercepted a message from Gaddafi's headquarters to his henchmen in the Libyan "people's bureau" in East Berlin informing them that terrorists, probably Palestinian, would strike at locations in West Berlin where Americans are known to congregate. U.S. intelligence also reportedly picked up a communication from Tripoli offering "congratulations" after the blast. Asserted a top National Security Council official last week: "We have...
...pretext by uneasy allies seeking to sidestep firm measures against the supporters of terrorism. Not everyone was satisfied with what Washington felt it could safely reveal. West German intelligence officials, who were provided with abbreviated and heavily edited summaries of the intercepted transmissions, accepted that there was some Libyan complicity in the Berlin bombing but were unwilling to hang all the blame on Gaddafi...
American intelligence officials faced a familiar dilemma: by disclosing too much they risked compromising their secret sources and methods of gathering intelligence. In fact, by revealing that they had broken the Libyan diplomatic code, they inevitably caused the Libyans to change it and become more careful about using the telephone. "The leaks have caused us a setback," conceded one National Security Agency official last week. "It will now take us more time to break the new codes, and in the meantime, we will be kept in the dark...