CBS Evening News - 1983-02-17
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[0:00] TVF Nashville
[0:05] Evening News. Dan Rather reporting
[0:07] tonight from Los Angeles. Reagan
[0:09] administration officials in Washington
[0:10] today tried yet another explanation for
[0:12] US military moves around Libya. Last
[0:14] night they said these moves were in
[0:16] response to Libyan threats against the
[0:18] Sudan. Then they said there was no
[0:20] connection. Now they say the military
[0:22] moves were designed in part to reduce
[0:24] tensions in the area. But these
[0:26] officials are insisting that no threat
[0:28] against Libya is intended. Bob Sheeper
[0:30] has more about this.
[0:32] >> It is being played down publicly for
[0:34] fear of inflaming the situation, but
[0:36] there is now serious concern within the
[0:38] administration that Libya's
[0:40] unpredictable leader Muar Gaddafi may be
[0:42] planning an attack on the Sudan and his
[0:45] longtime enemy, Sudin President Jaffer
[0:47] Nami. If such an attack occurred, it
[0:50] could cause Egypt's President Mubarak to
[0:52] come to Namar's defense and touch off a
[0:54] dangerous new round of complications in
[0:56] the Middle East. Pentagon sources said
[0:59] tonight that the US aircraft carrier
[1:00] Nimttz, which has been operating in
[1:02] recent days just north of the Gulf of
[1:05] Sidra off the Libyan coast, has now
[1:07] moved to waters about 100 miles off the
[1:09] Egyptian coast. In public briefings
[1:11] today, US officials argued the ship
[1:13] movements had nothing to do with events
[1:15] in Libya. The Nimmits has been operating
[1:18] north of the Gulf of Cedar which is the
[1:19] area that is uh about the only really
[1:23] clear airspace in terms of being off the
[1:25] airway uh stations uh the airway tracks
[1:28] in the Med and that's wh