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...bombers flying over the gulf had spotted a Soviet-built Nanuchka- missile Corvette sailing west out of the Libyan port of Benghazi. When the ship passed the twelve-mile limit, the A-6s attacked. Two hours later, at 1:15 a.m. Libyan time, the Aegis system aboard the Yorktown spotted a French- built Combattante patrol boat cruising the darkened waters of the gulf north of the "line of death." As the ship neared the American fleet, it speeded up. Kelso ordered the firing of two Harpoon missiles. "They saw a flash," said one official, "but we really aren't sure...
...black township of Kwazekele, outside Port Elizabeth, police who had taken up positions inside a liquor store shot nine people dead when the place was attacked by some 100 rioters. Two other township residents were killed in unrelated incidents. Liquor stores have long been the target of black activists because they are often owned by black officials who are regarded as collaborators with the white apartheid regime...
...imports of the U.S. It is but a half-hour jet flight away from perhaps the most critical "choke point" of all, the Panama Canal. There have been some ominous signs that Nicaragua is preparing to serve as a Soviet base. Warsaw Pact engineers are building a deep-water port on the Caribbean side, "similar," Reagan said in his speech, "to the naval base in Cuba for Soviet-built submarines." Under construction outside Managua is "the largest military airfield in Central America," said Reagan, "similar to those in Cuba from which Russian Bear bombers patrol the U.S. East Coast from...
...army captain ordered his men to beat a bus driver after a routine traffic incident, sparking strikes last week that left the country's public transportion completely paralyzed. In response, troops opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least four people. Mobs blocked off routes leading to the capital of Port-au-Prince and erected barricades of burning garbage and tires. The government quickly imposed a curfew and canceled all commercial airline flights...
While testing Gaddafi's responses, the U.S. also tested Soviet defenses by sending the cruiser Yorktown and the destroyer Caron into the Black Sea, where $ they sailed within six miles of the Crimean peninsula near the port of Sevastopol...