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Specifically, the report named Syria and Iran as employing terror tactics. "Iranian operatives in Lebanon are in the business of killing Americans," the commission charged. Reinforcing that finding, CBS News reported last week that Iranian pilots are being trained to fly kamikaze missions against the U.S. fleet off the Lebanese coast; CBS also reported that U.S. military vehicles had been stolen in West Germany by Iranian terrorists to use in bomb attacks on American bases in Europe. The Long panel described terrorism as "warfare on the cheap," and noted that "it permits small countries to attack U.S. interests...
...report approved the choice of the four-story steel and reinforced concrete building as a headquarters for the Marines because it afforded good protection from sniper fire, provided a rooftop view of the nearby mountains and served as a platform for radio antennas to communicate with the offshore fleet. But the panel criticized Lieut. Colonel Howard Gerlach, the battalion commander, for permitting as many as 350 Marines to be concentrated in the building. Gerlach, who was critically injured in the explosion and is recuperating in Bethesda Naval Hospital, "failed to observe the basic security precaution of dispersion," the report found...
...might seem sheer hypocrisy. Nothing did more to destroy détente than the Kremlin's insistence throughout the 1970s on piling up weapons far in excess of any legitimate Soviet defensive needs. During the decade the U.S.S.R. put in place thousands of nuclear missiles and expanded its oceangoing war fleet while...
Boorstin clearly relishes such tales, not only about notable discoverers like Columbus and Magellan but also about the half-forgotten Cheng Ho, a Chinese eunuch who set forth in the 15th century with a gigantic fleet of more than 300 vessels and nearly 40,000 men. Exploring as far as Zanzibar, Chêng Ho brought back to the imperial zoo its first giraffe, which the Chinese were convinced was a unicorn, whose horn was said to provide the most powerful of aphrodisiacs...
...gets scared and screams, "I'm goin' to nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with his old Nam flamethrower. "You attract animals...