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Line of death. (Gulf of Sidra)

National Review | April 25, 1986 | Copyright

Line of Death

COLONEL QADDAFI'S trumpeted "line of death" in the Gulf of Sidra proved to be such only for his own soldiers and sailors who, in the last week of March, died by the dozens defending the madman's mad claims to international waters. The latest U.S. naval operation in the Gulf of Sidra ought to have been as routine as the seven other passages into the gulf that the Navy has made since 1981. There should, after all, be nothing exceptional or newsworthy about U.S. carrier task forces traversing international waters in the Mediterranean. Attempts by the Soviets,…

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