Superior Court Kings County (Corcoran)
By Brian Cardile
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VISALIA - In the late summer of 1981, as tensions roiled between Libya and the United States over a small Mediterranean harbor called the Gulf of Sidra, President Ronald Reagan deployed a naval exercise into the area, which Libya had deemed its exclusive territory. When a Libyan vessel approached to menace the exercise, the U.S. submarine USS Snook surfaced to show it held strategic position. After several anxious mome... (continued)
