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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.
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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.
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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
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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
