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Wednesday, April 16, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9
G.S. - Libya Conflict
New violence by terrorists
follows U.S. air raid of Libya
SICILY
Mediterranean Sea
TUNISIA
Benghazi 0
Gulf of Sidra
Tripoli
Tobruk
LIBYA
Sebha
AJ Kufrah
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
White House on Tuesday pro
claimed U.S. air raids on Libya a suc
cess that “struck a blow against ter
rorism,” but the attacks were
followed by a new incident of vio
lence against an American — the
shooting of an employee in the U.S.
embassy in neighboring Sudan.
The bombing raids may have put
in jeopardy plans for a U.S.-Soviet
summit meeting this summer. The
Soviet Union called off a mid-May
meeting at which arrangements for a
summit were to have been made.
President Reagan, speaking be
fore the Khartoum shooting, told
some businessmen “the United
States won but a single engagement
in the long battle against terrorism”
and pledged to continue with more
strikes if necessary.
“We would prefer not to have to
repeat the events of last night,” he
told a group of business executives.
But he said that would be up to Li
byan leader Moammar Khadafy,
whom he labeled an arch-terrorist.
“What is required is for Libya to
end its pursuit of terror for political
goals,” Reagan said. “The choice is
theirs.”
The State Department said the
Khartoum embassy victim, whose
identity and occupation were not
disclosed, was hospitalized in serious
condition with a gunshot wound to
the head. A spokeswoman, Anita
Stockman, said U.S. officials did not
know who was responsible and no
group claimed responsibility. Na
tional Public Radio said an adminis
tration source said it was thought Li
bya was involved.
Last November, the State Depart
ment brought home some U.S. per
sonnel and their families from Su
dan because of the presence of
Libyan terrorists in Khartoum.
Americans were advised to stay out
of the city.
Presidential spokesman Larry
Speakes said the nighttime U.S.
bombings “successfully accom
plished” their twin objectives of
damaging Khadafy’s ability to per
petrate terrorism and showing nim
the United States would strike to
punish him for past attacks on
Americans and to pre-empt future
ones.
Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims
said rescue planes continued to
| search over the water off Libya after
dark Tuesday but had found “no ev
idence of survivors, no beepers, no
strobes” to indicate where the lost
plane went down.
He said the search-and-rescue op
eration was not drawing fire and no
other U.S. forces were in the area,
despite Libyan reports of a renewed
attack.
The Soviet Union, responding to
the bombing raids, called off a
planned meeting next month be
tween Secretary of State George P.
Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister
Eduard A. Shevardnadze, casting
doubt on plans for a second summit
this year between the leaders of the
two countries.
The White House called the So
viet decision "a mistake.” Shultz and
Shevardnadze were to have dis
cussed arrangements for Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to
the United States to meet with Rea
gan, a trip the two leaders agreed on
last November but for which no date
has been set.
Speakes said, “The Soviet decision
shows where they stand on the im
portant issue of international terror
ism. It also says something about
their commitment to work construc
tively on issues on the U.S.-Soviet
agenda, including arms reductions
and regional crises.”
Barely 15 hours after the bomb
ing of targets in and around Tripoli
and the western port city of Beng
hazi, Libya announced a retaliatory
strike of its own against a U.S. tele
communications station on the tiny
Mediterranean island of Lampe
dusa.
A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman
said at least two missiles were fired
from an unidentified ship or plane
at a Coast Guard long-range naviga
tion station on the Italian island
north of the Libyan coast.
The spokesman, Nicholas Sand-
ifer, said a report from the island in
dicated the missiles landed in the wa
ter just off the island, causing no
damage or casualties.
Speakes said the United States was
still assessing the situation and he
could not say what the response
might be. He said there were 31
Coast Guard personnel at the long-
range navigation site and that they
had no weapons other than personal
small arms.
Speakes also confirmed that a
truck laden with rocket launchers
had exploded outside Yokota U.S.
Air Force Base in Japan at 6:10 a.m.
EST but said it was too early to say
whether the incident was the result
of a terrorist attack. He said there
were no injuries.
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