Word: sidra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxiety about a Libyan military threat, and the U.S.S. Nimitz aircraft carrier, chaperoned by three escort vessels, had sailed away from Lebanon and toward Egypt. This was the same Nimitz from which, in August 1981, U.S. F-14 fighters had shot down two Libyan aircraft in the Gulf of Sidra...
...President and other public figures (a charge that Gaddafi flatly denied, and one that seems to have faded for lack of firm evidence). Gaddafi is the only foreign leader whose forces have engaged the U.S. in armed combat during the present Administration (the dogfight in the Gulf of Sidra last August...
Gaddafi reserves a special venom for the U.S., only slightly denatured by a professed desire to "establish a dialogue and restore normal relations." Those few conciliatory words quickly give way to an embittered and cautionary recollection of the Gulf of Sidra dogfight in which he lost two planes just a year ago this week. "The Gulf of Sidra is Libyan territorial waters [a claim the U.S. and most other countries do not accept] , so it was the U.S., not our side, that used force there. We would rather negotiate with America, but we find ourselves compelled to use force...
...erosion of Meese's authority was accelerated by a series of political blunders. While Reagan was vacationing in California last summer, Meese decided not to awaken him when U.S. jet fighters shot down two Libyan planes over the Gulf of Sidra, thereby creating the impression that Reagan was not running the shop. During the President's vacations this summer, either Baker or Deaver is set to help Meese at the California White House. Meese was also responsible in part for getting the President to endorse tax-exempt status for private segregated schools, a policy that Reagan...
...ruffled friend and foe alike, and occasionally dulls her effectiveness as a diplomat. Last year, for example, when 93 "nonaligned" countries signed a document criticizing the U.S. for, among other things, "aggression," after a pair of U.S. Navy jets shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, Kirkpatrick lashed out with a letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with the U.S. Says a former U.S. official...