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...last Thursday, a van with diplomatic license plates pulled up at a checkpoint outside the embassy annex, a building in East Beirut that in the past few months had become the headquarters of Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew and his staff. The car was ordered to halt by the Lebanese security guards on duty at the checkpoint. Suddenly the driver pulled a gun and shot at one of the guards. Then, as another guard shouted and ran after the van, the driver raced his engine, zigzagged through the "dragon's teeth," a staggered row of concrete blocks designed to reduce...
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...
Later that morning, Bartholomew spoke by telephone with Ronald Reagan. The President had been awakened by his National Security Adviser, Robert McFarlane, and told of the bombing. At 8:30 a.m., McFarlane and Secretary of State George Shultz briefed Reagan at the White House. By then Shultz had asked Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Richard Murphy to proceed to Beirut to lead an investigation of the bombing...
...into place, and the 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...
...called the Landmark Express. The reason that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made her much ballyhooed visit to the New York State capital last week was to lobby, along with dozens of others, for landmark-protection status for places of worship. Onassis, 54, has a particular interest in seeing that St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan does not permit construction of a 59-story office building on part of its landmark site. In Albany, Onassis met with legislators and Governor Mario Cuomo, 51. The high point of the trip was the plea that she made before a jam-packed legislature...