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...week these uncertainties stoked tensions toward a fever point. It began with American officials pointing a menacing finger of suspicion at Libya as instigator of the bombing of a West Berlin disco that left an American serviceman and a Turkish woman dead. Then the Pentagon cryptically noted that the Sixth Fleet, which had scattered after the Gulf of Sidra battle, was steaming back toward Libya. Almost simultaneously, President Reagan at his Wednesday-night news conference called Gaddafi "this mad dog of the Middle East" and proclaimed that the U.S. would "respond" whenever the perpetrator of a specific terrorist act could...
Confronted with diplomatic criticism of the raids, the administration said that if the Soviets had acted on its pleas, authorities might have been able to foil the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, which killed an American serviceman and a Turkish woman and wounded some 200 others...
...week's end, when an explosion shattered an aviation oil storage tank at a joint U.S.-Korean air base at Osan, 37 miles south of Seoul, U.S. military authorities were not immediately able to determine what caused the blast. Fifteen people were killed, including a U.S. serviceman. Meanwhile, both Chun and his opponents pursued their campaigns while moving in opposite directions. As the demonstrators were gathering at Taegu, Chun was setting off for Europe as the first Korean leader in history to make state visits to Britain, France and West Germany. The trip will almost certainly buoy the country...
...turned out that something was loose, and just as the serviceman discovered what was wrong, the phone rang, say Cohen. While the serviceman was talking on the phone, the Apple started smoking. Cohen remembers that the serviceman looked over and said. "Ah, hah--baked apple...
...recent weeks the I.R.A. has begun hitting back. A former serviceman in the mainly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment was gunned down last month in Londonderry, and a U.D.R. soldier was killed last week in County Tyrone, only hours after the Newry blast. One of those most deeply affected by the carnage is the R.U.C.'s Stewart. Said he of the latest carnage: "I saw grown men hardened to all the bloodshed over the years stand there with tears in their eyes...