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...officials were assessing intelligence concerning the condition and whereabouts of Khadafy, who appeared on Libyan television and dispelled speculation that he had been killed in the Monday night raids...
Questions also were raised by reports of street fighting in Tripoli near Khadafy's headquarters. White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes said he had no information about whether a coup was attempted, and Libyan officials in Tripoli insisted that the firings were aimed at a U.S. reconnaissance plane...
...AFTERMATH of Monday night's bombing of the Libyan capital, President Reagan told the nation that as long as he is in office he will not tolerate terrorism anywhere. Attacking Libya in response to what was a Libyan war waged through terrorism was justified, though the resulting civilian casualities are tragic. But it would be wrong to see Monday night's raid as the successful initiation of a new American policy for responding to terrorism in general...
First of all, America did not respond to terrorism, but to aggressive acts of war--under the guise of terrorism--sponsored by the state of Libya. The distinction is important. If reports are correct, Khadafy, with the help of Libyan diplomats working out of Libyan People's Bureaus in West Berlin, engineered an attack on a West German discotheque. Although terrorism was Khadafy's tool, his action was akin to a military attack. Seen in this light, the American military response is, at the very least, a justifiable move...
...recent years terrorism has been the means by which groups with no political outlet for their grievances make their cause known to the world. But Libya was using terrorism in an entirely different way. For the Libyan dictator terrorism has become the means of waging an unconventional war against the United States...