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...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...
...shore could pick out the Star of David on the planes' flashing silver tails. A volley of bombs and missiles streaked into a cluster of sand-colored buildings squatting among palms and pine trees in the seaside village of Hammam al-Shatt, twelve miles south of the Tunisian capital...
...operation, the raid was a singular success. As a diplomatic and political maneuver, it was a dubious proposition, since it came at a time when the U.S., in cooperation with Jordan and Egypt, had been attempting to keep King Hussein's fragile peace initiative alive. The raid took the Tunisian government of President Habib Bourguiba, 82, a longtime friend of the U.S., by surprise. When Tunisians first heard explosions from Hammam al-Shatt, many thought that a raid was being carried out by Libya, with which Tunisia had broken diplomatic relations a few days earlier. But on the beach...
...Administration's approval of the raid shocked moderate Arab states. At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the Israeli raid by a vote of 14 to 0, with the U.S. abstaining. Tunisian Foreign Minister Beji Caid Essebsi called the attack an act of "state terrorism" aimed at sabotaging Middle East peace efforts. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had returned to Cairo only the previous day after what he had regarded as a successful trip to Washington, denounced the raid as a "horrible criminal operation" that posed "a major blow to peace efforts." Argued Mubarak: "If we counter terror with...
...White House backtracked a bit by saying that while the Israeli raid may have been "understandable as an expression of self- defense," it could not be "condoned." President Reagan belatedly sent his "condolences" to Bourguiba. Other officials acknowledged that the U.S. had played an important part in persuading the Tunisian leader to give the P.L.O. a place of refuge after it was driven out of Beirut by the Israelis...