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THE METEOR
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By Chris Kelly· President Reagan recently
POLL RESULTS
IDo you agree with the recent US air strikes against Libya?
omt oun
made a magnificent move in targeting terrorism in Libya by ordering five simultaneous
attacks on strategic locations did this in response to evidence from the bombing ofa West Ger- man disco, in which American servicemen were injured and
Reagan'al•mg hf'ld d ire io giv •gainst w•,rld terror1am and
Am rira'a r arlion ltJ th bomb 1ng()(th "LaHf'JI"diro1n
W t Berlin, wh11·b k1ll d ''n lJ
politiral lh atric - lh oap •.. opraofth 'lin of h'and
lh 'juat you dar toueh ayn • drome lo rul lh da . Mr.
Good Move Gipper!
was mixed. However, the inci- · take a good hard look at another
dent did seem to open a sort of · statement he made, one sup- Pandora's box for the U.S. for . ported by members of Islam in
Middle Eastern and Arabian na- tions; "he who kills an American enters heaven. "W e are not deal- ing with a nation such as France or the U.S.S.R., who is willing to negotiate. Do we burn Libyan flags? Do we bomb embassies of
Students Yes 78%
No 100~
Don't Know 40~ No Opinion 80,4)
Faculty
50°.41 38°.41
12°.41 0°.41
one, we found out which of our
allies were bold enough to stand
with us - and against us. The
French, who haven't paid us back
for liberating their county in
W orld W ar two, refused the
English-based F- llls pasage
killed, that indicated Libyan over their airspace. British soveren nations here? Do we kill
involvement. Over the past few Prime Minister Margaret That- hostages in the name of a
years, Muammar Khadafy has supplied, armed, trained and pro- vided bases for international ter- rorists to operate from. Some- thing had to be done and thank- fully someone had the a:ssertive- ness to do it.
US problems with Libya_are not new. Neither is Libyan spon-
sored terrorism. Earlier this. year, the US Navy crossed Khadafy's 'line of death' - an ab- surd 200 mile barrier - were fired on and quickly struck back. Again this year, a TW A jetliner
suffered damage, including the death of four Americans, because a Libyan terrorist with a bomb decided to show his loyalty to Islam. Then came to Berlin disco attack. Finally, th·e US decided to whack the 'mad dog' on behalf of the rest ofthe world.
Reaction all over the world
By Robert Savage
Last week strike forces of the US Sixth Fleet in conjunction with F 111 bombers based in England attacked terrorist training camps and the quarters
of Muammar Quadaffi in Libya. The aima of the attack were two- fold; to disrupt Libyan terrorist eapabilitie• and to promote a r..oup d'etat aided by a thinly veil ed u asination attempt again t Quadatri, The event wae th predi,table rlimax of two mtJvementa - Preaident
cher was given more support for religious cause? We do not. Li-
Quadalfi will aerv only to prat·tiral r./fl'rt to hia lhr ate recruit mQr peopl to thf' anti
and nJUr .d dm: na r u•min beh1nd t.h at
of th r gim mak arr.•pt.
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def t. v 1n both th
Th ad rontlue10n that the
malitary art1on Ia t we k mad th ov rallaituation far wora If anythlnr. terrerl1m Ita• • n
and m hlary Th
her unpopular position in siding
with the U.S. when an Irish
woman was discovered with a cause of the raid, of course. The bomb at Heathrow airport - U.S. believed that the raid made planted on her by her terrorist an impression on terrorists. It Arab boyfriend, Nezar Hindawi. did, of course, take our several As for Khadafy, he called Reagan terrorist installations. If that
a "war criminal" and solemnly means one less dead G.I., it was vowed that he would "never kill worht it. Because of the nature of women and children." Tell that the Arabs and the Libyans, the
to the parents of 127 US Marines
killed in Lebanon, or better yet,
theparentsoftheinfantkilledin practice diplomacy. Unfor-
Greece. This is the same man
who, the day after the attack,
went to Libyan state radio and continue the attacks on ter-
stated: "Kill the American, rorism to spare innocent civilian and military, wherever· civilians and punish a nation ex- you may find them!...Kill him porting terrorism. Maybe, if we after you kill his children in front made an example of Libya, ter-
of him ." Many who suggest rorists will take notice - that's diplomacy with Khadafy, or. all they seem to understand those who cry 'Vietnam!' might anyway.
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strengthened - increased at- tacks upon US and British citizens will result. Mr. Reagan's mistake was not one of purpo e - everybody wants an t>nd to
terrorism - but of naivt>tl', ig noranc and fooli hne s; h wa naiv to think that onl' can nd
terrorism by a ' hort, harp shock,' ignorant not lo set~ how the r!'rent US action will n coura~t t rrorism and fooli h in allowing per onal animo ily and
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destruction of the Libyan train-
ing bases will not stop terrorism
nor even slow it down, rather it
willincreaseit.Ifthehombat- moderate-inspirc!dcoup;nowifit
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tack solidified support behind
Reagan in the US, then it also im-
proved "the mad dog of th Mid
die East's" standing in the Arab
world. Moreover, more ter- rational, uncontrolabl Colon I
rorists are not Libyan but Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians - all nations who
have publicly d nounced US 'ag
gression' and who now se the
US aa a dired threat. Striking at
would actually look more favourable to th US if this wer to happen! Furthermore, d!' pit Serretary of State Schultz's in sistt>nr that Quatlaffi waa not a dirf'et targt>l, the d ath of th rolonf'l'• adoptPd rlaught r and
injuri 1 to two of his along with th US radio dltoriala to
thit hard to
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US raus and to unify Arab lf'r ror11ta . Th poat attack r vf'ng murtl ra of two Hriton and an Am nran 1n lJt.irut it prtJ(Jf of thi nwfoundumtyat~~ainatlh W t:theywr nt,t vnrom m1tt d by Libyana but hy an
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Do you think this attack, and future similar attacks, will help deter
worldwide terrorism? Yes 41°,b
No 32°Al
Don't Know 20°.41 No Opinion 7°~
Do you think the US should remove Colonel Khaddafi from power by
any.possible means? Yes 73°,b
No 13°,b
Don't Know 6°,b • No Opinion 8%
Do you think the US should also search for a pea,ceful solution to the Libyan problem?
Yes 42°.41 No37%
Don't Know 9% No Opinion 120,b
NOTE Unfortunately, there will be
no 'Toolin' Trio' in this issue. The reasons for this are three: Calhoun McMeekin is still stuck in Charlottesville with Ursula, Kirk Gilleland is still on the
phone to California and Fred is still ... well always talking. Anyone who would like to con- tribute a funny anecdote about VES faculty and student per-
sonalities, please submit it to the editorial staff.
byans do.
Reprisals have taken place be-
attack was necessary because they are not civilized enough to
tunately, Khadfy is still alive and we must deal with him. We must
coup d'etat was also ill thought out. The result of military action was to destroy a possible
occurs it will b more fundamen- talist or more pro-Soviet, put ting the US in a worse position than b fore. It's ironic that their
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