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...Reagan ready to order the two carriers in the Mediterranean to reform a battle group and head for stations off the Libyan coast, Pentagon sources said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Sends Second Ship to Mediterranean | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

Should such orders be issued, however, the Navy is in position to form a two-carrier battle group that would include 16 combat ships and more than 160 airplanes, the sources said. It would take about two days to move such a battle group to the Libyan coast, said the sources, who would speak only on condition of anonymity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Sends Second Ship to Mediterranean | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, NATO commander Bernard Rogers said yesterday there is "indisputable evidence" at least one fatal bombing was the work of a terrorist network set up by the Libyan strongman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Sends Second Ship to Mediterranean | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...said Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy is "definitely a suspect" in the latest fatal bombings aboard a TWA jetliner over Greece and in a West Berlin nightclub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Carriers Will Stay in Mediterranean | 4/10/1986 | See Source »

Navy warplanes firing missiles at Libyan patrol boats. Army helicopters ferrying troops into the jungles of Central America. American might was unleashed and on display last week, resonating with echoes of fights for right and freedom from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. As the images of far-flung war flickered over television screens, Americans could hardly be blamed for humming a bar or two from the Marines' Hymn--but not too loudly and more than a bit nervously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Week of the Big Stick | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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