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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, April 25, 1986
Iran, Syria not targets, Shultz says
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that the United States had no plans for military action against Iran or Syria over terrorism but that the bombing of Libya proves the United States would use its military power.
State Department officials said Syria and Iran had been involved in terrorist activities, but unlike Libya, their focus at present was not on attacking U.S. people.
President Reagan told columnists Wednesday that he would use military force against Iran or Syria if presented with the same kind of evidence linking those governments to terrorism against people from the United States that preceded the April 14 U.S. bombing raids on Iraq.
Schultz said, "We don't have any plans for such operation. But what the president has done and said is, first, it has been shown that the United States will use its military power in this fight against terrorism. Our action against Libya shows that.
"And, second, as the president said, we regard terrorism in general as a very important
problem, and when the terrorists have the support and connivance of a state, it's particularly ominous. So you have to focus on that, and the president has set that out in clear and stark
State Department spokesman Charles Redman said Reagan's remarks were in response to a hypothetical question and represented no change in U.S. policy.
"We've always reserved to ourselves the right to respond to a terrorist attack in a manner we deem appropriate," Redman said. "Each case, of course, is evaluated on its own merit."
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas backed Reagan's threat to use force against Syria or Iran if there was firm evidence linking either country to attacks on U.S. citizens. But Dole said that without "a smoking gun," it was too speculative to discuss possible action.
When Reagan ordered the air strikes against Libya, he said he had direct proof Libyan officials ordered the April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen. Then he said he was carrying a cripple Libyan bag to the human Riadady's terrorist apparatus and pre-empt planned attacks.
Syria, Iran, Libya, Cuba and South Yemen
make up the State Department's list of countries that sponsor terrorism, meaning sales of U.S. military equipment that could be used for terrorism are banned. The focus of the administration's anti-terrorist rhetoric and action in recent months, however, has been Libya and Khadafy.
Robert Hunter, a top National Security Council official in the Carter administration, said that Libya was not the No. 1 terrorist nation but the second most vulnerable to insurgency are pragmatic reasons Libya felt the U.S. lash.
Hunter said there was a large Soviet presence in Syria and a Soviet proximity to Iran, making U.S. attacks risky. Further, he said, the United States has diplomatic business to conduct with Syrian hostages are held in Syrian-occupied Lebanon because of its Syria's influence in the Arab world.
"That leaves Libya," Hunter said. "Khadafy a loudmouth. He's a butcher. You can get at him. There's nothing else we want from him."
Hunter is a scholar at the Georgetown University. Center for Strategic and International Studies
Beirut police defuse bomb near library
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Police explores experts defused a time bomb outside a British library in west Beirut yesterday. Seven Frenchmen find the Muslim sector of the city under an new terrorist attacks on Westerners.
Later, Christian and Muslim forces traded mortar and rocket fire across the Green Line dividing the capital,
killing one woman and wounding six people.
Police said the fighting began shortly after dusk and lasted two hours before subsiding into sporadic machine-gun and rocket skirmishes.
Seven French teachers were driven out of west Beirut to the relative safety of the Christian eastern section of the capital. The evacuation almost emptied west Beirut of a once-active Western com-
The bullet-riddled bodies of two British schoolteachers and a U.S. hostage, Peter Kilburn, a university student in the United States, were found last week.
A pro-Libyan group said the hostages were killed to retaliate for the U.S. air raid on Libya and British support of the April 15 attack.
Wednesday that it hanged another British hostage.
The group, the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Moslems, released a five-minute videotape that documented 'the body's' body draping from a gallows.
Another pro-Libyan group said
At the United Nations yesterday, a U.N. spokesman said Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar used a digital device, that Collett was hanged April 17.
TOKYO — Japan has declined to take a stand on the U.S. bombing of Libya because it lacks sufficient evidence of Tripoli-inspired terrorism due assurances by Presidential Admiral Gen. Ministry of faction said yesterday.
Japan refuses to take stand on U.S. actions
United Press International
Ten days after the attack on Libya, Japan is the only principal U.S. ally that has not taken a public stand.
Yoshio HATano, the Foreign Ministry's chief spokesman, said President Reagan had assured Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakaseon he had indipendent proof that Libya ordered the April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub and other terrorist actions. Reagan and Nakaseon were joined by Reagan in Camp David retreat a day before the April 14 U.S. raid.
But Hatoan said the government was still studying whether the United States could legitimately justify the attack on Libya that Libya was behind the bombing.
He said the government had not requested, and U.S. officials had not offered, copies of intercepted diplomatic cables between Tripoli and the Libyan People's Bureau in West Berlin, which Reagan said were proof the Libyans instigated the bombing of the nightclub.
"It depends on the relationship between the Libyan government and the terrorist action," Hatano said, "and I have to explain my policy. I have not seen clear evidence."
"They are not readily available," Reagan said.
He said the government had been simply getting various facts from various sources.
U. S. Embassy spokesmen were not aware of any discussion of the cables.
The resistance to take a stand could prove embarrassing for Nakasome during the May 4 industrial nation's, which he is hosting, in Tokyo.
Washington is seeking a united stance on terrorism from its allies.
The Japanese are already miffed about reports from Washington last week that White House spokesman Larry Speakes and Vice President George Bush were saying Japan had, supported the raid.
Hatano said the government had not yet ruled out endorsing the bombing or taking part in sanctions against Libya, although other officials noted Japan prefers talking to diplomats in Tokyo, as is being done in European capitls, is most unlike by since there are a total of four.
Senior Japanese officials concede Tokyo is caught between its alliance with the United States and its concern not to antagonize Middle East oil nations, on which it depends for nearly three-fourths of its oil needs.
The wavering reflects Tokyo's total reluctance to take tough stands on global disputes and its particular ties to Middle East oil producers.
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