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CARROLL O'CONNOR, best known for his 13-year stint as Archie Bunker on All in the Family, displays remarkable control. Despite the striking similarity of his theatrical and television roles both blue collar, conservative and ideologically limited--no trace of Archie Bunker seeps through. O'Connor's only impediment is a simulated Irish brogue which, while credible, frequently muffles his speeches...
...tension is tempered with long stretches of hard work. Two to six soldiers camp in each bunker. Each day they crawl into the morning air and head for tin cups of coffee and a rudimentary breakfast. A few of the men find time for a shower, and sometimes there is hot water. Then the serious work begins: filling sandbags. By continuously building new bunkers, each requiring hundreds of sandbags, the Marines can spread themselves more thinly, reducing casualties from a direct hit. Trees cut from the banks of a foul-smelling nearby creek provide supporting timbers. Says Staff Sergeant David...
...their idle hours chiefly to write home. Seated at a picnic table, three beefy helicopter ground crewmen scribble side by side like overgrown schoolboys taking exams. One 19-year-old private writes regularly to his wife but has omitted any worrying incidents, including the shrapnel that hit his bunker a few weeks ago. "I tell her as little as possible," he says. "When I get home, I'll tell her the truth...
...soldiers seem very young, and they are: the average age is 20. One night Keith Lewis, 19, and three companions were savoring field-ration brownies in their bunker when a shot rang out near by. They leaped to their feet, then started giggling, realizing they had nowhere to run. "It's weird in the dark," says Lewis. "We get to laughing a lot." The men are, however, aging quickly. Captain Paul Roy, the company commander, gathered his troops a few days ago in a memorial service for two of the Marines killed in action. He read eulogies to them...
Throughout the week, the position of the multinational force was becoming increasingly precarious. U.S. Marines at Beirut airport spent most of Monday night in their bunkers after rockets and artillery shells began to land on the encampment. Dawn was scarcely an hour away when a rocket crashed into a bunker in Alpha Company's position to the east of the airport runway, killing Corporal Pedro Valle Ramos of San Juan, P.R., and Lance Corporal Randy Clark of Minong, Wis. The following day, an artillery shell struck the French military headquarters in West Beirut, killing Lieut. Colonel Louis Sahler...