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...particular new items only if a Network tells them it's important: if a piece of news is not the top story on the evening news, it must not be terribly important. A poll of "informed" Americans would probably find last month's most important story involved the Libyan in London. The networks and major papers kept the story on the front burner of political discussion for nearly a week. But is the Libyan incident as relevant to the average American as the furious war in the Mideast, which may affect the economic, political and military security of the nation...
This is not to suggest that the Libyan embassy incident was unimportant. The story won the competition for coverage with a variety of interesting events. But how and why the press chooses its stories, and consequently how people view those events, leaves much to be desired. Network competition for ratings and newspaper circulation drives may be undermining the most important goal of journalism--to objectively report world events of import rather than to cater to the demands of a sensationalism-hungry audience...
...dissatisfaction of some leaders of the armed forces stems in part from the involvement of at least 6,000 Libyan troops in the civil war in Chad. The officers are also reported to be upset about the growth of the "people's army," a politicized militia whose existence threatens the armed forces' influence. Last month Libyan air force planes bombed an army base in Benghazi after all or part of the garrison mutinied. Reports from foreign residents say that about 20 soldiers were killed. But the biggest disruption occurred on March 25 when a mysterious explosion heavily damaged...
...Reagan Administration has made no secret of its dislike of Gaddafi. Secretary of State George Shultz recently called the Libyans "troublemakers in the world" and declared some months ago, "We have to put Gaddafi in a box and close the lid." But how? The U.S. has already virtually severed diplomatic relations, banned Libyan oil imports and restricted the travel of Americans to Libya (though 2,000 still live and work there). The Administration was hopeful that the events in London would lead reluctant Western allies to take similar measures against the recalcitrant Gaddafi...
...British concern. From within the sealed-off embassy on St. James's Square, the militants sent Gaddafi a message, reported from outside sources, pledging that they were prepared to die "in defense of our principles and aims." The British government understood that such rhetoric comes easily to Libyan revolutionaries, but it also knew that it could not rule out the possibility of a Libyan act of ultimate defiance. In the meantime a coroner's court was told that Constable Fletcher had died of stomach wounds from shots fired by a high-velocity weapon, and that eyewitnesses had seen...