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Ever since Palestinian terrorists staged attacks last Dec. 27 at Rome and Vienna airports against the Israeli airline El Al, it was inevitable that the Israelis would respond. Last week they apparently thought they had their + chance. As a Libyan Gulfstream II executive jet carrying nine passengers and three crewmen passed the southeastern coast of Cyprus on its way to Damascus, two Israeli fighter jets intercepted the aircraft and ordered the pilot to proceed to Ramat David air force base, near Haifa...
...view comes from Malcolm Muggeridge, a British author, TV personality and curmudgeonly Christian convert. In his 1977 book Christ and the Media, Muggeridge spins a fantasy in which Jesus, having survived the three temptations in the wilderness, is offered a fourth: a contract from Lucifer Inc. to go to Rome and anchor a First-Century network variety show. Jesus, "concerned with truth and reality" rather than "fantasy and images," refuses. As a direct result of that choice, across the centuries the greatest artists and architects, poets and philosophers, musicians and mystics celebrate "the brightest and most far-reaching hopes ever...
...journalists strayed off to plumb local angles. Guido Dagatta of Milan's Italia Uno TV network had an interest in New England Assistant Coach Dante Scarnecchia. "Milan?" mused Scarnecchia congenially. "Is that the capital of Italy?" Smoke began to come off Dagatta. "No, the capital is Rome. Maybe you have heard...
Khadafy has repeatedly denied American assertions that he harbors and supports such Palestinian terrorists as Sabry al-Banna, the renegade Palestinian known as Abu Nidal whom the United States blames for the December 27 airport attacks in Rome and Vienna...
...Libya. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who devised the strategy and won White House support, had another purpose as well: to show Libya what it might confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they don't react, we've exposed them as a paper tiger...