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...told the nation that as long as he is in office he will not tolerate terrorism anywhere. Attacking Libya in response to what was a Libyan war waged through terrorism was justified, though the resulting civilian casualities are tragic. But it would be wrong to see Monday night's raid as the successful initiation of a new American policy for responding to terrorism in general...
When a representative from the Arab League condemned the raid for its failure to deal with the root of terrorism, he misunderstood the character of Libya's actions. He argued that the frustration of attempts to bring about the formation of a Palestinian homeland has left Arabs so outraged that they have resorted to terrorism. But in the case of Libya, the Palestinian question had precious little to do with terrorism. The bombing of a West German disco or the proposal to buy U.S. hostages from Lebanon were state-ordered acts, not expressions of violence by angry Palestinian youths...
Nevertheless, the bombing of Tripoli should not be the first page in a new chapter of Western responses to terrorism. On the night of the raid, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations missed the point when he argued that America should adopt Israel's policy and respond to each terrorist act militarily. First, Israel's policy has not ended terrorism; and second, such a policy would require a level of resolve and military intrusion into daily life that the people of this country are unlikely to tolerate...
These intertwined circumstances make The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor something more than another raid on a successful author's juvenilia. For Garcia Marquez, who would become world famous through his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, this early effort in journalism provided a lesson in the bizarre effects that telling a tale can have on characters and author alike. His attempt to reconstruct Velasco's experiences as factually as possible assumed a life of its own; the sailor who braved exposure and sharks fell afoul of the words of his story. And words, paradoxically, rescued Velasco's adventure from...
...similar desperation tactics last month to gain support for his unpopular, idiosyncratic policy. The day before the Senate voted on his aid request, Reagan's Administration--in the words of a senior Honduran official quoted in The New York Times--"deliberately exaggerated the seriousness of Nicaragua's recent border raid and pressed Honduras to ask for $20 million...