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...North Augusta...
...impression was left I was trying to avoid that debate, being too cautious." He was anything but cautious Friday afternoon, repeatedly assailing Hart by name in a press conference and then in a speech in the rotunda of the Maine capitol building in Augusta. Voice booming, face flushed, fists pounding the lectern, Mondale accused Hart of siding with Big Oil (by voting against the windfall-profits tax and proposing a $10 per bbl. fee on imported oil that would "add at least a full percentage point" to the inflation rate) and of pleasing "the hospital lobby" (by helping to kill...
...destined for Israel ended up in South Africa. (12) An article in Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs cites U.S.-made 106-mm recoiless rifles which the South African Army got from Israel. Likewise, the South African Air Force has reportedly acquired from Israel some 25 U.S.-made Augusta-Bell 205 A helicopters...
Then began the most extraordinary weekend of Ronald Reagan's presidency. He had flown to Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club late Friday for two days of relaxation with Shultz and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. At 2:45 a.m. on Saturday, Shultz was awakened in the Eisenhower cottage at Augusta with an urgent cable from Barbados, which told him that the eastern Caribbean states wanted the U.S. to invade Grenada. Shultz and the new National Security Adviser, Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, reported the request to Vice President Bush on a secure telephone line to Washington at about...
Reagan left Augusta at 7:17 a.m. and arrived back in Washington for a round of NSC meetings that began at 9 a.m. Much of the talks centered on the Marines in Lebanon. That tragedy provided a cover of secrecy for talks about the invasion. Reagan decided that the Beirut bombings made it even more imperative that the U.S. act decisively in the Caribbean, especially since the island nations would know if their request for action had been turned down. Declared Reagan: "We cannot let an act of terrorism determine whether we aid or assist our allies in the region...