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Libya's only military riposte to the raid was feeble. On Tuesday afternoon it launched two Soviet-made SS-1 ballistic missiles, each with about a ton of dynamite in its warhead, in the general direction of the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. Fired from a military base near the Tunisian coast, they were evidently aimed at a Coast Guard navigational aid facility located on Lampedusa. Both missiles exploded three miles short of land...
Speaking on the question, "Why is self-denial unpopular today?" Dr. Joseph Ton last night told an audience of 100 in the Science Center that "society has fallen prey to the deception that independence is the way to self-fulfillment...
Saying that nobody likes communism in a communist country, Ton said that it was impossible to find a Marxist in Rumania. "After you've tried Marx, the only alternative is Christ," he said...
During the last decade, the Rumanian government placed Ton under house arrest for publishing papers protesting government restrictions of church services and the exclusion of Christians from the universities. In 1981 the government asked him to leave permanently...
...Ton became president of the Romanian Missionary Society in Wheaton, IL. The organization smuggles translations of theological literature to Rumania, produces radio programs for Radio Free Europe and the British Broadcasting Company foreign service, and applies political pressure to promote human rights in Rumania...