| In a first assessment from Washington, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the first day of "operations yesterday went very well." Speaking to NBC's "Meet the Press," he said a no-flight zone over Libya to ground Colonel Qaddafi's warplanes -- a prime goal of the attacks -- was "effectively" in place and that a loyalist advance on the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi had been halted. |
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