2 MORE LIBYAN VESSELS SUNK AND BASE HIT AGAIN,
U.S. SAYS, VOWING TO KEEP UP PATROLS
STRIKES IN 2D DAY
Americans say Response Is to 'Hostile Intent,' Not Actual Attack
WASHINGTON, March 25 - United States naval forces launched additional attacks against a Libyan missile site and against Libyan patrol vessels over night and today, the Reagan Administration said.
The Spirit of Libya
American officials said the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea had destroyed two Libyan missile patrol boats in attacks Monday evening and this morning had struck a missile site on the coast Monday evening. The same site was attacked by American missiles earlier on Monday.
One of the missile patrol boats was sunk by the Yorktown, a guided missile cruiser, after the Libyan vessel had approached to within 10 miles of the main body of the American task force, officials said.
Missile Site 'Out of Action'
No New Attacks by Libyans
The new American attacks came after Libyan forces displayed what officials today describes as "hostile intentions." The officials said there had been no actual firing by the Libyans before the new American actions...
HINDSIGHT DEPARTMENT
Aided with the advantage of hindsight, what happened in the last week in March? In the Cable Connection interview, we stated that things should come to a head on Tuesday (the 25th), Wednesday (the 26th), and Thursday (the 27th), during the last full week in March (1986). As it turned out, it was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of that last week in March, when the US Navy started blowing Libyan ships out of the water.
Click here to see the New York Times for Thurs, March 27th, 1986.
