Word: beirutization
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...every story it runs, every photograph it publishes, TIME touches lives directly. On occasion, what happens to those lives returns to touch those of us at TIME directly and profoundly. One such story is that of Rick Crudale, 21, a Marine lance corporal from West Warwick, R.I., stationed in Beirut. Only five weeks ago, Crudale was pictured at the Beirut International Airport on TIME'S Oct. 3 cover, "Holding the Line" in Lebanon. Due to return from leave the day after the headquarters bombing, he did not report and at first was listed as missing. Apparently, he came back...
...gunboat diplomacy that has haunted them for more than a century. At home, members of Congress and ordinary citizens alike wondered what had prompted President Reagan to take such drastic action against a tiny island. Coming only two days after the death of at least 229 Marines in Beirut, the move was sure to trigger a new debate on whether the Administration is increasingly relying on force as a complement to, if not a substitute for, diplomacy...
According to a recent New York Times article, "unusually high numbers" of young men are seeking to enlist in the Marines in the wake of recent casualties in Beirut...
Nationally marine recruiting has increased. Recruiters in Baltimore, Miami, Chicago, Evansville, Ind., and Austin, Texas all said they were deluged with applicants since Sunday's bombing of the Marine garrison in Beirut and Tuesday's multinational invasion of Grenada, led by Marines and Army Rangers...
...William J. McGurk in Montclair. N.J., said his callers included a 57-year-old woman who was too young to join the Navy in World War II and too old to enlist now, and a 37 year-old Army veteran who admitted being overweight but wanted to go to Beirut "if there's any way I could help...