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...bodyguards accompanying British Ambassador David Miers, who happened to be visiting his U.S. counterpart, opened fire on the approaching van. Said the British security man later: "I fired about five rounds through the door of the vehicle. I saw the driver fall over. As he fell, he pulled on the wheel and the car swung to the right, hitting a parked vehicle." The van was still 30 ft. from the embassy when it exploded, producing a flash and a deafening roar. The façade of the building collapsed, raining masonry and broken glass over a wide area...
When the bomb went off, Bartholomew was in his fifth-floor office talking with British Ambassador Miers. Elsewhere on the same floor, U.S. Political Officer David Winn was conferring with a Dutch diplomat. Said Winn later: "We heard a burst of automatic fire, and we both looked at each other, and then it blew." He and others rushed to the Ambassador's office, where they found Miers shaken but not seriously hurt. The British envoy asked them to help him dig out Bartholomew, who was so covered with rubble that he was not even visible. Like Miers, Bartholomew...
...cement in which the gateposts were set was still wet. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a Lebanese guard said that he thought the dragon's teeth had been placed too far apart to force traffic to a crawl. Countering such criticism, Bartholomew's predecessor as Ambassador to Lebanon, Robert Dillon, pointed out that the security measures in effect last week had at least prevented the bomb-laden car from reaching the embassy building...
...nothing else, the U.S. learned last week that its troubles in Lebanon did not end with the withdrawal of the Marine peace-keeping force last winter. Says former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Neumann: "The area is not heating up again. It never cooled down." As for the latest bombing, Neumann predicts grimly, "Fasten your seat belts. There will be more...
State Department officials have insisted, however, that the Israelis must first tighten the country's belt several notches. In a 90-min. session with Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis abandoned his mild-mannered style to deliver a stern lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto...