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...Damascus, Assad took the unusual step of calling in U.S. reporters for a two-hour interview, his first since the missile tension began, to "address the American public." Assad had P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat waiting in an anteroom as he explained that Syria had deployed the missiles "only after Israel committed direct aggression against us, attacking our helicopters, which carried food provisions to our troops in Lebanon." He charged that Israel's use of airspace over Lebanon was illegal. "Will Israel give Lebanon free access to its airspace? Will Israel allow Lebanese planes to carry out reconnaissance missions...
...group includes Chicanos, blacks, young drifters, backpackers, the aged and handicapped. Some are evidently needy, others perhaps not. All sit patiently in a musty anteroom of an old gray school-house on Denver's shabby south side. The wait is long, sometimes half a day or more, for the chance to enter one of the pastel-colored, 6-ft.-sq. cubicles and apply for food stamps. Those who qualify take their ID cards and wait in line at a cashier's window for coupons redeemable for anywhere from $10 to several hundred dollars' worth of groceries...
...Austin has gone through. Says Reagan: "I'm calling to ask if you can serve your country as Assistant Secretary of HHS for health." The conversation is a formality; the appointee has already been primed. A few minutes later, near Helene von Damm's desk in the anteroom, Personnel Director Pendleton James is wondering aloud why Reagan did not immediately make one other similar call...
...honor guard members finally found the ambulance at the rear loading platform. The bronze casket was back in the vehicle and they helped carry this casket into an anteroom outside the morgue. On this second entrance into the hospital, says Lifton, Kennedy's body was back in the casket. Lifton found several witnesses, including Hospital Corpsman James Metzler, who saw the casket opened in the autopsy room at this time -and now the corpse was wrapped in a sheet, just as it had left Dallas...
Once at the gym, Reagan and the four unscheduled candidates went into an anteroom to decide how to proceed. Bush arrived, knowing nothing of this turn of events. As he approached the dais, he was invited to join the others in the anteroom. He declined, pleading the press of time and thinking he might be walking into a trap. When Reagan finally appeared with the other four and argued for a six-man forum, Moderator Jon Breen, editor of the Telegraph, insisted that the format would not be changed...