Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRIPOLI, Libya--United States warplanes heavily damaged a naval installation that U.S. officials said was a commando training base during the American raid last week on reputed terrorist targets in Libya...
Libyan officials yesterday allowed Western reporters to see parts of the Sidi Bilal naval installation, which includes Libya's naval academy, in the first tour by journalists of damage to purely military targets during the raid...
They said the air raid killed two naval cadets and injured 15, but that most of the estimated 300 cadets had been evacuated because a strike was expected...
...Shultz and the Pentagon's number two official, Deputy Defense Secretary William H. Taft, did acknowledge the United States had hoped the strike might foster an internal revolt against Khadafy. Taft also said the United States was "certainly prepared" to deal with the consequences of killing khadafy during the raid, but stressed the administration...
...Lebanon, retaliation for the U.S. raid was swift and bloody...