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After the attack, the Libyans turned Al Kabir into a kind of house of detention for foreign journalists, who were allowed out only for chaperoned tours. Accompanied by "minders" from the Libyan Ministry of Information, reporters visited a residential area, a hospital and a morgue. On Tuesday evening a group of handpicked correspondents, mostly women, were driven to the children's hospital at Al Fatah University and shown two young boys, who were identified as sons of Colonel Gaddafi's. Both were lying under oxygen tents, strapped to their hospital beds. On one outing, a Libyan militiaman held a plastic...
...Libyan television went all out to film the civilian damage inflicted by U.S. bombs; hour after hour they replayed lingering shots of lifeless children and wounded women. But Libyan plans to frame the view of American journalists were foiled by the confusion of the city. On Wednesday afternoon, a group of journalists were herded into a bus and told they were being taken to Gaddafi's house in the Bab al Azizia compound. Expectations were high that they might see the colonel. But as the bus approached the walled barracks, a dozen or so armed guards burst through an open...
...they ever returned to power, they would close down U.S. nuclear bases. Liberal Party Leader David Steel told the Prime Minister she had turned "the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle." Social Democratic Party Leader David Owen was less harsh, but maintained that Britain should have taken the Libyan issue to the United Nations. Later in the week, after two British hostages in Lebanon were murdered, apparently in retaliation for Britain's cooperation with the U.S., Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock blamed Thatcher, saying the hostages had been "abandoned to their fate...
...that violated international law. But she seemed to have come to believe with Reagan that alternatives to force in dealing with Libya had simply failed. Last week she reminded her critics of Libya's continuing support of the terrorist gangs in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of other Libyan incidents much closer to home. Two years ago, London broke diplomatic relations with Tripoli after Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed by gunfire from the Libyan "people's bureau...
...sudden strike that leaped live right out of the nightly news. At the precise moment that the three networks began airing their evening newscasts last Monday, U.S. attack planes were roaring toward their five Libyan targets. Out of the black Mediterranean night they came, racing through orange cones of frantic antiaircraft fire to punish the man Ronald Reagan calls the "mad dog of the Middle East." As Americans, transfixed at their television sets, listened to the muffled rattle and thump of the assault filtering over the phone lines of network correspondents holed up in a Tripoli hotel, the U.S. attackers...