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...carrying out the Rome and Vienna airport assaults, using passports provided by Libya. It also holds Abu Nidal responsible for hijacking an EgyptAir passenger jet to Malta last November, an act that ended in disaster when 60 people were killed as Egyptian commandos stormed the plane in a rescue raid. Much of Gaddafi's mischief has been aimed at his political foes. Since 1980, more than 15 anti-Gaddafi Libyan exiles have been assassinated in Italy, England, West Germany, Greece and the U.S. More than 50 people were injured in two London bombings in 1984 that were presumed...
...also played into the Administration's efforts to win $100 million in military and humanitarian aid for the contras, which had been narrowly rejected in the House the week before. On Thursday evening the Senate approved the aid package by a vote of 53 to 47. While the raid did not alter any Senator's vote, it did quash attempts to expand upon House limits on how and when the money could be used. Although the margin was hardly the bipartisan mandate that Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said he had hoped for, it was a concrete boost for Reagan...
...talk in the U.S. Senate," intoned Jesse Helms, the staunch North Carolina conservative. "It baffles me that we can even be debating 90-day delays (in the delivery of contra aid) when men striving to be free are being killed." Frank Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, warned that the raid "underscores the dangers that the Nicaraguan conflict could spread throughout Central America...
...last several weeks we have mobilized many thousands of men to the border. But it is absolutely false that Nicaraguan troops have violated Honduran territory." But the Sandinistas undercut their own denials later. At a press conference on Friday, Ortega sought to justify but not deny the raid. "Honduras lost control of its sovereignty by having the mercenary forces there," he said, referring to the contras. "The border area is converted into a war zone. We have a legitimate right to defend our country." That statement made clear that Nicaragua regards any area where the contras are encamped inside Honduras...
...President of Dartmouth College yesterday granted a request for a second appeal to 10 students suspended last week for their sledgehammer raid on an antiapartheid shantytown...