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...ominously, a Kresta-class Soviet cruiser is anchored in Libyan waters. Seven other Soviet warships are nearby in the Mediterranean. If Gaddafi should rise to the bait and try forcibly to counter any U.S. movement across his line in the gulf, a prime U.S. retaliatory target might be the SA-5 antiaircraft sites that recently became operational at an airfield south of the Libyan city of Surt. One complication in hitting the sites: an attack could result in casualties among Soviet technicians that man the antiaircraft areas. Nonetheless, both Secretary of State George Shultz, who has long yearned...
...army service file, about 40 pages long, listed all organizations to which Waldheim belonged. It showed that in 1938 he joined the Nazi student union in Vienna and the Sturmabteilung (SA), a paramilitary organization better known as the Brownshirts. The file and photographs also placed Waldheim from 1942 to '44 in Yugoslavia and Greece, where he served on the staff of General Alexander Lohr, who was executed in 1947 for war crimes...
...also said he rode horses with members of the Brownshirts, "and by mere inference my name could have been entered on a list of SA members." Shortly after war broke out on Sept. 1, 1939, Waldheim was drafted into a cavalry unit. In December 1941 he was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front by shell splinters and was transferred to Vienna...
...they knocked down two Libyan jets over the gulf after one had opened fire. But targets within Libya also look tempting to some U.S. strategists. One is an expanding military air base, nine miles south of the coastal city of Surt, where intelligence satellites show construction of twelve Soviet SA-5 ground-to-air missile sites. Another potential target is a nuclear-reactor project being built along the coast with Soviet help. A dangerous complication: the reactor and the batteries may both be tended by Soviet advisers...
...words between Washington and Managua has heated up since Dec. 2, when contras downed a Soviet-built Sandinista Mi-8 helicopter with a Soviet- made SA-7 surface-to-air missile. The U.S. charged that the chopper was piloted by a Cuban, and that the co-pilot was also a Cuban. It was the first time the contras had used such rockets in battle. Declared Secretary of State George Shultz: "Fine, I'm all for it. I hope they get more of these weapons." The incident marked a turning point of sorts for the Sandinistas. "Now that (SA...