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Healing the rupture still further will be among the foremost priorities of President Reagan next week, when he meets in Tokyo with the heads of six other leading industrial nations at the annual economic summit. Even France, which had previously opposed the inclusion of terrorism on the agenda for the economic meetings, has now agreed to discussions. Reagan's rallying cry will probably run along the lines of a motto that has recently become one of his favorites, a maxim coined by the 18th century British conservative Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will...
...response to the concerted campaign by their antagonists, Libya and its friends quickly mounted a counteroffensive. Gaddafi called Reagan a "new Nazi," and a Libyan official claimed that bombing attacks in Europe were being prepared by CIA agents and their Israeli colleagues to make his country look bad. Within 24 hours of that unlikely charge, an explosive went off in central London, outside a six-story building where both British Airways and American Express maintain offices. Luckily, the detonation came in the quiet moments before dawn. Had it occurred a few hours later, said the police, it would have caused...
...mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced on the opportunity to denounce Washington's "barbaric act of terrorism," adding that the U.S. had lost not one plane in the raid, as claimed, but at least four. For all the rhetoric, however, Soviet officials conspicuously refrained from ruling out a Reagan-Gorbachev summit later this year...
Despite the Administration's tough policy toward Libya, its position on other countries linked to terrorism, particularly Syria and Iran, sometimes appeared confused. In an interview with Washington columnists, President Reagan seemed to indicate that the U.S. was ready to strike against those countries if it had evidence tying them to terrorist acts. In fact, evidence gathered by British officials in the thwarted El Al bombing has pointed toward Syrian involvement. Damascus, however, maintains a mutual friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, which means that an attack on Syria could result in a superpower face-off. Though Administration officials later...
...sons, sat Gaddafi's wife Safia. Clutching a crutch as her silver-trimmed black robe billowed in the stiff breeze, the usually private woman vowed to kill with her own hands the pilot who had shattered her house and to pursue eternal vengeance on all Americans "unless they give Reagan the death sentence." For all its staginess, the eerie scene was another reminder that despite last week's precautions, the madness of terrorism is far from over. --By Pico Iyer. Reported by Dean Fischer/Tripoli, with other bureaus