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...Portillo, discussed toughening the U.S. position as Arab protests mounted. Reagan agreed that this should be done. Crafted at the State Department, a new statement was shown to the President by Haig. Reagan approved it without changing a word. Read at a press briefing by Dean Fischer, the State Department spokesman, it said that the U.S. "condemns" the air strike and that the attack "was in possible violation" of a 1952 U.S.-Israeli agreement under which American arms could be used only for defensive purposes. At the Pentagon, Assistant Secretary of Defense Henry E. Catto Jr. emphasized that "this...
...task force was set up to monitor events. Under Secretary of State Walter Stoessel met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and urged the So viets to restrain their Syrian ally. Meanwhile, the State Department scrambled to disavow any responsibility for approving the Israeli operation. Said State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer: "I want to make it fully clear that the U.S. has not given a green light to Israel to undertake any military action in Lebanon...
...Secret Service control vehicle. "Oh, my God, it's happening!" he thought. The shots had been so close to him that he could "feel the concussion and smell the powder." In the car, he shouted, "Let's get out of here!" He grabbed Presidential Assistant David Fischer and, referring to Reagan, asked, "My God, Dave, is he all right...
Presidential Aide David Fischer took over the telephone at the hospital to keep the line open. Secretary of State Alexander Haig called Baker on another phone to ask about the shooting. "I will keep you advised," said Baker. Two minutes later, Deaver was on the hospital phone, speaking in somber tones. Then Reagan's personal physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, came on to deliver the bad news: the President had been hit after...
Even as their tanks were being gassed up for the war games, Poland's East bloc neighbors intensified their warnings against further concessions to the workers. On a visit to Warsaw last week, East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer pointedly reminded his Polish comrades that their allies would never neglect their duty to enforce the principle of "socialist internationalism." Such warnings seemed all the more ominous in light of the new details that emerged last week about the stormy March 4 Moscow summit meeting between Polish and Soviet leaders. Led by Leonid Brezhnev and five Politburo members, the Soviet...