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Article: Europe's pacifism cracks alliance
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 28, 1986
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What will we remember a year from now about the raid on Libya?
Caspar Weinberger's line: that sickle-shaped line he drew on the
night of the raid tracing the flight path of the U.S. planes that
struck Libya. The head of the sickle is at Lakenheath Air Base in
England. The base of its handle is in Tripoli. And the arc extends
out into the Atlantic - repelled by France and Spain and Portugal -
and down through Gibraltar to the Mediterranean.
Weinberger's line divides the Atlantic Alliance in two.
Margaret Thatcher chose our side of the line and asked the right
question: Why was Sgt. Kenneth Ford, the American soldier killed by
the Berlin bombing, in Berlin in the first place?
Sgt. Ford ...