Word: terrorist
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...Terrorism and the support of "revolutionary movements" are tenets of Gaddafi's foreign policy. Gaddafi in fact seems hardly to have met a terrorist he didn't like--or support. In addition to funding the radical fringes of Palestinian organizations, his hand and pocketbook have been seen behind Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, the Irish Republican Army and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. He offered sanctuary to the three surviving members of the Black September guerrillas who slaughtered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Gaddafi has turned Libya into a kind of Palm Springs for despots and terrorists...
Authorities agree that the only way to prevent terrorist attacks is through timely intelligence. President Reagan has maintained that 126 terrorist missions were foiled in 1985. Federal officials said 23 of those were in the / U.S., including plots to kill Libyan dissidents and efforts by Sikh extremists to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during a visit last year...
...there the expectation that any American attack would depend on whether Libya fired first. Libya had already fired--choosing once again the weapon of a terrorist bomb. After countless unheeded warnings and after futile attempts to counter terrorism with economic and political sanctions, the U.S. Sixth Fleet was poised to strike the type of blow the Reagan Administration had threatened--and anguished about--for so long...
...Senate and House leaders gave qualified support while waiting to be consulted under the War Powers Resolution, the pilots of the F/A-18 Hornets and A-7E Corsairs stood ready for the command, should it come, to attack and destroy Libya's airfields, radar stations, Soviet-built missile sites and terrorist training camps. No matter what the outcome, regardless of when and if the President issues a final order, the week's drum rolling dramatized Ronald Reagan's world view in action. It also illustrated some of the frustrations of putting that view into action. Leaks about the details...
...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 be identified. Why had the U.S. once again targeted Gaddafi? Of all the evils and perils in the world, there is none that galls Reagan more than terrorism. Of all the anti-American thugs who hang out in the back alleys of the Third World, there is none Reagan...