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The Guardian        Media        p. 29        10.7.2006

The Guardian        University 2006        p. 10        18.8.2006

U.S. continues to conduct air strikes in Libya

WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 13, 2011
6:53pm EDT
Reuters
By Phil Stewart and Missy Ryan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. fighter jets are still attacking Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's air defenses

even after NATO took over full command of Libya operations earlier this month, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

[ . . . ]

Eleven U.S. aircraft have flown 97 sorties in Libya since April 4 and fired on air defense targets three times,

the Pentagon said. The aircraft involved are six F-16 fighter jets and five EA-18 Growler electronic warfare planes.

All the aircraft had been placed under NATO command.

[ . . . ]

U.S. aircraft remain on alert and may participate in those campaigns as well if there is a specific request from NATO.

American officials have stressed that after its initial leadership of the air campaign in Libya,

the United States has moved to a support role focused on aerial surveillance,

jamming of Libyan communications, and refueling.

Colonel Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said the United States remained in a support role.

"Having a few aircraft providing this strike capability on a (limited) basis doesn't change that," Lapan said.

The comments came as a group of Western powers and Middle Eastern states meeting on Libya's future

called for the first time for Gaddafi to step aside. Divisions have emerged

over how to achieve that political goal in Libya.

(Editing by John O'Callaghan and Peter Cooney)

    U.S. continues to conduct air strikes in Libya, R, 13.4.2011,
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/13/us-libya-usa-strikes-idUSTRE73C4XB20110413

LABOR: How Many Jobless [ adjectif nominalisé ]?

Monday, Mar. 17, 1930
Time

How many workmen were jobless throughout the land last week not even the President of the U.S. knew.

Government officials made guesses on unemployment, colored more by partisan politics than by positive facts.

Senators flayed the Department of Labor for its paltry system of gathering labor statistics.

The City of Milwaukee opened soup kitchens.

Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn.

Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men.

Communists staged demonstrations throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21).

Though these things combined to make the Hoover Administration acutely unemployment-conscious,

none of them answered the question: how many jobless [ adjectif nominalisé ]?

    LABOR: How Many Jobless?, T, 17.3.1930, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738809,00.html

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