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Palestinians who know the dark world of Arab terrorism say the TWA aircraft bombing is the latest work of Abu Nidal, the elusive mastermind whose followers have spread blood across three continents...
Helms pointed to the administration's decisionto supply Stinger anti-aircraft missiled to therebels in Afghanistan to emphasize that supposedlycovert operations were becoming overt...
...week there were suggestions that the Pentagon may be playing the same game. Aviation Week magazine reported that for more than two years the Defense Department has deliberately misrepresented publicly available performance standards and other technical data on several key projects. Among them: high- speed microchips, low-visibility Stealth aircraft technology, and perhaps the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, project. While the program's goal is to confuse Soviet weapons planners, the U.S. public and Congress are also being deceived. Four U.S. Senators have asked the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate. Defense Department officials disclaim knowledge...
Despite that firepower, Libya is far from unprotected. Its air force includes some 480 Soviet and aging French-built aircraft. More ominously, a Kresta-class Soviet cruiser is anchored in Libyan waters. Seven other Soviet warships are nearby in the Mediterranean. If Gaddafi should rise to the bait and try forcibly to counter any U.S. movement across his line in the gulf, a prime U.S. retaliatory target might be the SA-5 antiaircraft sites that recently became operational at an airfield south of the Libyan city of Surt. One complication in hitting the sites: an attack could result in casualties...
...coast of Ireland have proceeded with glacial deliberation. India has never officially confirmed what many have suspected all along: that the third-worst aviation accident in history, which took the lives of all 307 passengers and 22 crew members, was the result of a bomb planted in the aircraft's luggage compartment. In spite of their tight- lipped treatment of the case, investigators know much more than they are letting on. Or at least so says Canadian Journalist Salim Jiwa, 34, in a new book, The Death of Air India Flight...