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Thursday, April 10, 1986 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan ew Digest By The Associated Press Heacjan warns u.b. win resp Khadafy threa WASHINGTON President Reagan said Wed nesday night that Libyan leader Moammar Kha dafy had declared war on the United States and this country is ready to respond when it has sufficient evidence that Libya is behind terrorist attacks on Americans. Calling Khadafy "the mad dog of the Middle East," Reagan said his administration is still gathering evidence that might link the Libyan leader to fatal bombings aboard a TWA airliner and in a Western Berlin nightclub. Asked at a nationally broadcast news confer ence whet her the United States is "in a state of war" with Khadafy, Reagan responded: "He declared it. We just haven't recognized the dec laration yet." "We're going to defend ourselves and we are certainly going to take action in the face of specific terrorist threats," Reagan added. Earlier Wednesday, Reagan told newspaper editors the United States is "not going to sit here and hold still" amid mounting threats against Americans. He said he suspects Khadafy is behind surging terrorism. On prospects for a summit meeting this year with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the presi dent virtually ruled out June as the date. "It is just about out now," he said. The two leaders had tentatively decided on June at their first summit meeting last November in Geneva. But since then the two sides have had trouble nailing down Gorbachev's visit. Reagan said July still remained a possibility, but said sometime after the Congressional elec tions in November was more likely. He flatly ruled out having Gorbachev here in the four months leading up to the elections. Returning time after time to the subject of terrorism and Khadafy, Reagan said, "We have considerable evidence over quite a long period of time that Khadafy has been quite outspoken in his participation and sponsoring terrorist acts." But asked whether he was ready to announce military action in retaliation, Reagan said: "We are not ready yet to speak on that. Any action we might take would be dependent on what we learn and I can't go any further." The Pentagon said Wednesday the Navy has taken steps to prepare a two-carrier battle group, including an indefinite extension of the carrier Coral Sea's deployment, if Reagan decides to order a military strike against Libya. J Vf?S L s'iKi 4, 1'K i W ft IP Mayor Eastwood celebrates victory CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. Clint Eastwood, 55, cast by voters in the role of mayor-elect, said Wednes day he was ready to tangle with City Hall like his movie character "Dirty Harry" and promised to "bring a little fun back to Carmel." Champagne flowed freely into the wee hours at East wood's restaurant in this tourist village after he grabbed a fistful of votes 72.5 percent of those cast to defeat incumbent Charlotte Townsend and two other opponents. Townsend conceded 90 minutes after the polls closed Tuesday night in this town of 4,800. "You can almost feel it in the air," Gordon Simpkins, 75, owner of the Carmel Pipe Shop, said of Eastwood's new role. "There's an atmosphere of optimism and con fidence in the future and progressiveness in the com munity without injuring the aesthetics of the area." Eastwood, who became a top box-office star for roles as tough detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan and the sharp-shooting gunslinger of spaghetti Westerns, bristled when townsfolk started calling him Mr. Mayor. "Just Clint," he said, with his characteristic economy of words. The actor said he will give the $200-a-month job priority over acting and credited his victory margin to "a lot of dissatisfaction" with the current city council. Shuttle cabin survived explosion, expert says CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Challenger's crew cabin structurally survived the Jan. 28 explosion and nine-mile plunge from the sky and then shattered when it hit the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a federal safety expert reported Wednesday. However, experts do not believe the astronauts survived the fall to the ocean. They believe the seven probably were killed instantly from the shock of the explosion or from aerodynamic forces as the cabin tumbled from the sky. The nose section with the cabin inside broke cleanly away from the rest of the shuttle and when it "struck the water, it had some mass inside: that mass was the crew module," said Terry Armentrout, director of the National Transporta tion Safety Board's bureau of accident investigation. Armentrout said aerodynamic forces rather than the explosion caused most of the initial breakup of Challenger and that the 140-to-180-mph impact with the water did the rest of the damage. In fact, he said, there was no large explosion as everyone at first believed. He said it was more of a fireball and that the cloud of smoke and flame resulted from the flames that flashed when liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellant mixed after the huge external fuel tank ruptured. "There was evidence of explosion visually, but the explosion of the entire shuttle is not something we're seeing," he said. "The external tank did not explode. With all its potential, it would have been a much greater fireball." Armentrout talked with reporters as he led them through two hangars where the shuttle debris that has been recovered has been laid out over a pattern of 4-foot-square grids, much as the wreckage of an aircraft is positioned for investigation. It was the first public viewing of the debris, and it was a sobering sight to see the remains of the once sleek space plane spread out, battered, jazzed and charred. Most pieces were small, but in the hanger where the orbiter chunks are being examined there were large sections of the fuselage, the cargo bay doors and the right wing. There was a stench of dead marine life from the barnacles and other sea creatures that attached themselves to the debris. The crew cabin debris is being examined elsewhere in the main hangar and was not seen by the reporters. Most of the booster rocket parts are in a secure building because they still contain hazardous fuel. Divers believe they have recovered all the astronaut remains they are going to find. These are being examined and identified in a medical laboratory here. Nebralskan 34 Nebraska Union 1400 R St.. Lincoln, NE68588-0448 Editor - Managing Fditor News Editor Assoc. News Editor Editorial Page Editors ,r : . 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Second-class postaqe paid at Lincoln. NE 68510. All KATEKAL COPWGHT 1SS8 DAILY KEBRASKAM Pentagon readying military option on terrorism WASHINGTON The Navy has taken steps to assure that President Reagan can call on a two-carrier battle group if he decides to order a military strike against Libya, Pentagon and administration sources said Wednesday. The preparations include cancellation of the departure by one carrier from the Mediterranean for home and scuttling plans for a liberty call by a second carrier, the sources said. The U.S. 6th Fleet now has the carrier America under way in the northern Mediterranean off the coast of Italy. The carrier Coral Sea, which had been expecting to sail for home shortly, was in port Wednesday in Malaga, Spain, but sources said it might get under way as early as today. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed the Navy had yet to receive any orders to re-form a naval battle group in the central Mediterranean off Libya's coast. : "It has become clear over the past 24 hours that we're going to keep our Doctors, study traits ROME "If you want to stop terrorism," says University of Rome psychia trist Franco Ferracuti, "we must understand terrorists," Ferracuti and other investigators, undertaking independent studies of the terrorist mind, have found common traits: They frequently are loners, have lost parents while young, were failing professionally or educationally. They usually are middle-class, with above-average schooling. Guilt feelings often . burden them. Although frightened citizens may consider them deranged, "the studies have found conclusively that the large majority of terrorists are not psy chotic," Washington-based behavioral scientist J errold Post, who has studied terrorists for the U.S. government, noted in a telephone interview. The range cf personalities and political causes makes generalizations difficult. But Post categorizes terrorists according to their feelings toward their parents. Post believes that terrorists justly personal failures by blaming the system "The idea that 'It is net us, it's thern.' w In a sense, the terrorist group is the first rsd fxr.ily thsy hr3 f:-r.i, hs sail options open for the moment by keeping two carriers over there," said one source. The disclosure of the Navy actions came as President Reagan was telling newspaper editors the United States is "not going to just sit here and hold still" in the wake of renewed terrorist attacks against Americans in Europe. He said Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy is "definitely a suspect" in the latest fatal bombings aboard a TWA jetliner over Greece and in a West Berlin nightclub. The president refused to say what he plans to do, other than continue to gather evidence about the incidents and seek the support of European allies. Shortly before the president's appearance, a senior administration official disclosed that U.S. intelligence agencies had learned that Khadafy was encouraging his embassies to guide new terrorist attacks against the United States and that Reagan administration officials had agreed there must be retaliation. W. Germany expels - ' ' j Ji- ' i i :V ': .: "," t' ' ' ,: . : ! . BONN, West Germany West Germany ordered two Libyan diplomats out of the country Wednesday and said it has "several indications" that Libya was behind the bombing that wrecked a Berlin discotheque frequented by American soldiers. Chief government spokesman Friedhelm Ost added, however, that the expulsions were not "directly connected" with the bomb attack early Satur day on the La Belle nightclub that killed two people and wounded 230. One of the dead and 63 of the wounded were Americans. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said outside pressure was not involved in the expulsions. "We do not take such decisions to do anyone a favor," he said. In Washington, the State Department said kicking the two diplomats out was "an important initial step." Ost told a news conference the two diplomats had been under observation for some time "for various activities not in accordance with the norms of diplomatic behavior." U.S. State Department spokesman Ecrnard Kalb said the West German action, and France's expulsion cf two Libyan diplomats bet week, represents "increasing recognition" cf the threat posed by terrcrict
