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By MICHAEL PUTZEL Tripoli time, 7 p.m. EST, and were over
AP White House Correspondent within minutes. Correspondents in Tripoli
were reporting sporadic explosions and gun-
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. warplanes fire more than three hours later - well after
attacked "the headquarters and terrorist Weinberger said U.S. planes had returned to
facilities" of Libya's Moammar Khadafy, base.
President Reagan said last night. Initial Weinberger said the Air Force bombers
reports were that the middle-of-the-night air were dispatched from three U.S. bases in
strike succeeded, he said, adding: "If nec- England with the permission of the British
essary, we will do it again." government. However, they were forced to
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said fly an extra 2,800 miles round-trip because
an Air Force F-111 was unaccounted for, but France had refused permission for the bomb
he did not know if it had been downed. Libyan ers to fly over its territory en route to the
radio said three U.S. planes had been hit and Mediterranean, he said.
the crew of one jet had been killed, after they Pentagon sources said military officials
were downed, "by Libyan citizens." - had decided several days ago that any mili-
Reagan, in a nationally broadcast address tary; strike would be conducted at night,
to explain the military strike, said the United because intelligence information indicates
States had direct, precise and irrefutable Libyan pilots have little training in night
evidence that Khadafy had ordered recent flights. The U.S. planes have sophisticated
anti-American attacks, including the bomb- avionics and navigation gear for operation at
ing of a discotheque frequented by service- night and in bad weather.
men in West Berlin. Knowledgeable officials said Khadafy's
"When our citizens are abused or attacked headquarters was one target of the raid,
anywhere in the world, we will respond in self although it was not on the Pentagon's official
defense," Reagan said. In an unmistakeable list of targets. Reagan himself described the
warning to Khadafy, he said: "We have done attacks as "concentrated and carefully tar
what we had to do. If necessary, we will do it geted to minimize casualties among Libyan
again." people, with whom we have no quarrel."
At the Capitol in Washington, security was A broadcast by Libya radio, monitored by
tightened just minutes after the air strikes the British Broadcasting Corp., said ". . .the
had ended. savage American invaders carried out a
Reagan's spokesman, Larry Speakes, said treacherous and barbaric air strike .. .
the purpose of the raids was to "pre-empt and against the residence of the brother leader of
discourage" Libyan terrorism, and he said the revolution (Khadafy). A number of mem
the United States had evidence that Khadafy hers of the family of the brother leader were
had ordered more anti-American incidents. injured as a result of this raid."
He said the raids began at 2 a.m. today, Khadafy survived the attack, a Libyan
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U.S. bombs Libya; 1 plane feared lost
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official said, but government sources said
two of his sons were injured.
Libyan radio reported foreigners were also
injured in the U.S. raid, which it said struck a
military airport in Tripoli and the sprawling
barracks complex where Khadafy has his
home and headquarters. Three hours later,
new explosions and gunfire rocked the city. It
may have involved street fighting, but this
could not be confirmed.
Weinberger said the attacks were mounted
against five targets near Tripoli and Bengha
zi using 18 F-111 bombers from U.S. bases in
England and 15 A-6 and A-7 attack jets off
Navy carriers America and Coral Sea.
Speakes, the deputy White House press
secretary, described the targets as Libya's
"terrorist infrastructure the command
and control systems, intelligence, commu
nications, logistics and training facilities."
Secretary of State George Shultz, appear
ing with Weinberger in the White House
briefing room just after Reagan's Oval Office
statement, said the Soviet Union was told of
the operation as it was taking place and was
assured it was "in no way directed at the
Soviet Union."
Asked what would happen if Libya was to
retaliate for the air strikes, Shultz said,
"What is clear tonight is that the United
States will take military action under certain
circumstances."
"He counted on America to be passive,"
Reagan • said of Khadafy. "He counted
wrong."
Several dozen anti-nuclear war activists
and foes of Reagan's Central American poli
cies turned out last night to chant slogans
outside the White House decrying the U.S.
attack on Libya.
"We do not want to see Rambo in Tripoli!,"
the group shouted in unison in Lafayette Park
in a demonstration hastily arranged by the
Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy.
Within five minutes after Speakes finished
briefing reporters at the White House, seve
ral dump trucks were brought onto the
grounds of the U.S. Capitol, blocking all the
auto and truck entrances in a move to en
hance protection against any terrorist attack.
Raid . wins
The U.S. raid on Libya won broad congres
sional support last night, although some
legislators raised questions about whether
they should have received more notice of the
bombings.
Others said the failure of European allies to
join in economic sanctions against Libya left
the president no choice.
In other reaction, a Soviet commentator
today called the U.S. attack on Libya a "new
bloody crime" aimed at intimidating the
North African country.
Canadian_Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
also reactej to the raid, saying last night that
his government was notified of U.S. inten
tions concerning Libya. But there was little
Simone de Beauvoir dies
PARIS (AP) Simone de Beau
voir, a leading light of French litera
ture, a torchbearer of the world
feminist movement with her book
"The Second Sex" and lifelong com
panion of the late Jean-Paul Sartre,
died Monday. She was 78 years old.
Miss de Beauvoir, who had grown
increasingly reclusive in her final
years, died in Cochin Hospital in
southern Paris almost six years to the
day after Sartre's death on April 15,
1980.
Hospital officials, citing instruc
tions from the family, refused to
specify the cause of death. But a
source close to Miss de Beauvoir,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
said she died of pulmonary edema.
Simone de Beauvoir
The source, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said Miss de Beauvoir
underwent an appendectomy prior to
her death.
Premier Jacques Chirac said her
death "underlines the end of an era."
President Reagan speaks from the Oval Office last night after his television address to the
nation about the United States attack on Libya.
support at home
official response from other foreign govern
ments to the American bombing raid on
Libyan targets.
In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry
reported that its embassy in the Libyan
capital was hit by the bombing raid but no
one apparently was injured.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan.,
said: "I just believe that the president did
what the American people would have
wanted him to do a proportionate response
to an act of terrorism where there's no doubt
about Libya's fingerprints being all over" the
bombing of a West German nightclub in
which an American soldier died, said
Sen. Edward Kennedy,' D-Mass., said, "I
think all Americans would stand with the
commander in chief at this moment."
PSU prof remembers
late author's influence
By CELESTE McCAULEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Calling Simone de Beauvoir her
"intellectual mother," a University
associate professor in French and
contemporary literature said she felt
a sense of loss when she heard that
the 78-year-old French author and
feminist died yesterday.
"I think she was a very, very hu
mane person. I cried when I heard the
news," said Christine Makward.
A 45-year-old native of the French
Riviera, Makward said de Beauvoir
was an ideal in her life while the
professor was an undergraduate and
graduate studying at the Sorbonne in
the mid-60s and early 70s and still
is today.
"De Beauvoir has been an ideal in
my life which is still very valid. She
was a really important influence in
my life and my thinking and all of my
generations (during the 605)," she
said.
"I lived with her thought, her work
and her example of the way she
carried her relationship with (French
philosopher Jean-Paul) Sartre based
on total openness and respecting the
other's freedom no matter what the
pain was," Makward said.
De Beauvoir's most famous work,
The Second Sex, was published in 1949
and although she wasn't active in the
feminist movement then, the book's
themes became vital tools of femi
nists in the '6os and early '7os.
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Makward said she had a brief ex
change with de Beauvoir in 1981. The
professor had requested the rights to
the English translation of the play
"The Useless Mouths" so she could
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Meanwhile, Senate Democratic Leader
Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia expressed
concern about what happens next.
"This may blind his (Khadafy's) people to
the economic problems that persist there and
they might rally around Khadafy," Byrd
said. "Are we going to do this again, and again
and again?"
In Moscow, the commentary of Soviet polit
ical news analyst Vladimir Goncharov in the
official news agency, Tass, and said the
United States "has started speaking in its
true tongue the tongue of bombs, flames
and death."
Goncharov said, "American imperialism
has perpetrated a new bloody crime" and
then referred to U.S. actions in Vietnam,
Nicaragua and Grenada.
include it in her anthology of contem
porary drama by French women.
"I was touched she replied in long
hand herself because she was ex
tremely busy with nursing Sartre and
answering students' inquiries for in
formation for their dissertations. I
was amazed she was writing personal
notes."
De Beauvoir was both the friend
and lover of Jean-Paul Sartre, a
renowned philosopher of existentia
lism, Makward said.
"That makes relationships very
different and very authentic. They
were close friends and lovers
throughout their lives. In a sense it
was the best marriage you've ever
seen."
Makward recalled the time she got
into trouble with her parents when
she was 18 and was reading the works
of Sartre and de Beauvoir in her last
year of high school.
Her father confiscated "The Wall,"
a collection of Sartre's short stories.
"We read (works of Sartre and de
Beauvoir) and we got into trouble
reading them in my household. The
names were just bad names for Cith
olics. They were not respected and
they were considered immoral.
"She (de Beauvoir) dropped out at
14 (from the Catholic religion) and it
took me until I was 19 years old to
drop out.
"At one point I tried to integrate the
two but there was no way I could
reconcile personal freedom and re
spect and the tenants of the Catholic
church," she said.
"You find your values within your
self and not outside, which is why it is
an impossible marriage within the
'two."
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