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...program called F-15 Strike Eagle jumped suddenly from 15th to fifth place on Billboard's Entertainment Software list. Reason: among the seven scenarios included in MicroProse Software's $34.95 disk was a strikingly similar mission. Based on a 1981 incident in which U.S. jets downed a pair of Libyan MiGs over the Gulf of Sidra, the program was embellished with a mythical air strike over Libyan soil...
Quickly capitalizing on the headlines, MicroProse has issued a revised edition of Strike Eagle that includes "Mission 8: The Anti-Terrorist Airstrike--Libya, April 14-15, 1986," complete with a printed map of the Libyan coastline, showing the location of suspected terrorist camps. True, the simulation is just a recycled version of the imaginary 1981 siege and is flown in an F-15 rather than the F-111s and A-6s used in the actual attack. Still, says MicroProse Executive Fred Schmidt, "it's a way to find out what it felt like over Libya, and, as our advertisement says...
Palestinian and Arab terrorism far more likely results from the was directed by Israel and the United States against the Palestinian people for the past 35 years than from a Libyan plot. Not that Qaddafi is beyond terrorism. But if Libya is really responsible, why aren't we the people allowed to see the proof? Are we simply to take for fact the claims of a president who deliberately lied about U.S. medical students being endangered in Grenada two years ago? Lane Kenworthy Summer School Proctor Lionel...
...irritated the U.S. by refusing to use their clout when it was most needed, whether to restrain Syrian excesses or pressure Arafat into coming to terms with Jordan. Though they have their own grievances against Muammar Gaddafi, most moderates joined the chorus of denunciation against the U.S. raid on Libyan targets...
...Britain and France--began conducting tough document checks of Arab diplomats entering the divided city from the East. The heightened security was a response to the April 5 bombing of West Berlin's La Belle disco, in which an American soldier was killed. The U.S. charged that Libyan diplomats based in East Berlin had helped plan the blast. But East Germany's passive acceptance of the new vigilance masked a determination to even the score. Last week East German border guards started demanding that Western diplomats show their passports in order to leave or enter East Berlin...