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...Karachi. But the latest hijacking was particularly dispiriting, coming as it did after months of relative calm. Gradually, many government and airline officials had convinced themselves that the stepped-up security measures taken at airports throughout much of the world, as well as President Reagan's raid on Libyan targets in April, had seriously and perhaps decisively affected international terrorism. Last week's events proved emphatically that this was not the case...
...Speculation about U.S. intentions began with a Wall Street Journal report that the U.S. had evidence Gaddafi was plotting new terrorist acts and that it was ready to retaliate against him. In response, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the obvious: "We certainly have reason to believe that the Libyan state . . . has not forsaken its desire to create terrorist activities worldwide, and the capability is still there to do so." He also declared, "We will employ all appropriate measures to cause Libya to cease its terrorist policies...
...statement was less a signal to Libya of imminent U.S. action than a reaffirmation of continuing policy toward Gaddafi. Although Western intelligence agencies believe they have detected new Libyan terrorist plots, the evidence is too sketchy to warrant military retaliation. Nevertheless, the President's advisers took the opportunity to remind the public, and Gaddafi, that contingency plans for Libya are always at hand...
Many sociologists have speculated (widely, of course) about the love affair between journalese-users and hyphenated modifiers. The gist of all this cerebration seems to be that readers cannot stand the shock of an unmodified noun, at least on first reference. Thus we have Libyan-sponsored terrorism, Ping-Pong diplomacy, debt-laden Brazil and the two most popular hyphenated modifiers of the 1980s, "financially-troubled" and "financially-plagued," which can fairly be used to describe most Latin American nations, many banks and the United States Football League. The Syrian-backed P.L.O., an earlier hyphenated champion, had to be retired when...
Meanwhile, Garang's force of roughly 12,000 men threatened to tighten its siege of Sudan's four large southern towns. In addition, the insurgents braced themselves for an expected assault from government forces, supported, the rebels claimed, by 13,000 Libyan troops gathered on the border. Though Sadiq denies any ties to Tripoli, there seems little doubt that he is drifting politically leftward. In early August the new Prime Minister visited Libya, which had been an enemy of the pro-American Nimeiri, and later he traveled to Moscow. Said Information Minister Mohammed Tewfiq Ahmed: "We cannot afford to have...