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It was just after 10 on a clear Tuesday morning when the eight sleek warplanes peeled off over the faintly ruffled waters of the Gulf of Tunis in the western Mediterranean. They were a long way from home, and they wasted little time. While the others hovered high over the...
Like the Entebbe rescue and a 1981 bombing raid that destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq, last week's attack had been elaborately planned. At dawn on Tuesday, eight F-15s took off from an air base in northern Israel, followed about 40 minutes later by eight F-16s. The...
Egypt suspended negotiations with Israel over the status of Taba, the sliver of beachfront in the Sinai that is claimed by both countries. In Tunis, Bourguiba called in U.S. Ambassador Peter Sebastian and told him of his "profound regret and great astonishment" at the Administration's response. Summing up the...
The bombing at Borj Cedria, twenty-one miles south of the capital city of Tunis, virtually wiped out PLO headquarters. Different reports list between 30 and 60 civilian and PLO deaths.
Tunisia retaliated last week by ordering the expulsion of 253 Libyans, including 30 diplomats. It also closed Libyan consulates and cultural centers in Tunis and the seaport city of Sfax. As tension between the two countries grew, the Tunisian news agency reported that three Libyan aircraft had flown 30 miles...