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...There is no doubt God Almighty was on our side." So said Group Captain Colin Adams, commander of the British Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri, Cyprus. Adams was talking about a raid launched against his base last week by a small group of pro-Libyan terrorists who, police believe, arrived by car. Firing 60-mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, the attackers concentrated on well-populated areas, including a beach and a sports complex. Miraculously, casualties were limited to two injured women and a slightly damaged building. Several hours later the Unified Nasserite Organization, a previously unknown...
Shortly before the April l4 strike, the Malta government disclosed, its air-traffic controllers had warned their Libyan counterparts of approaching war planes. A Maltese official called the notification a "normal procedure." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman said the raid was nonetheless a "tactical surprise...
Unfortunately, the Bolivian Fokker aircraft that had escorted the Blackhawks on the raid had got stuck on the target site's swampy runway. The Fokker finally arrived at 7 p.m., almost seven hours late. By then the journalists' patience had run thin, and they voted to return to La Paz without touring the newly seized site...
Since the raid, De Santana's office has been crowded with women like Jorje who are desperate to find their children. Said she: "Daniela was lovely. She had blue eyes and dark hair, just like me. I don't want another baby, just her." Of those who had been arrested, she added, "I hate them. I hope they go to jail forever...
Apparently under pressure from Syrian President Hafez Assad, Jihad last year freed another American, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, but claimed that William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat, had been killed to avenge an Israeli air raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia. Buckley's death remains unconfirmed. In April another American captive, Librarian Peter Kilburn, and two Britons were killed in retaliation for the U.S. air attack on Libya. That leaves three American hostages: Anderson, 38, an Associated Press correspondent; David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean...