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...toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S. foreign policy to a European public already highly uneasy about placement of American nuclear missiles in Britain and on the Continent. Said a British government minister: "Grenada, Lebanon and now Nicaragua, again. These gung-ho displays really do not help us in defending American behavior." Said Kirkpatrick, replying to allied criticism generally: "Can we, who make a very large commitment to the security of Europe, count on ment to the security of Europe, count on some reciprocal concern by Europe for our security...
Back in Washington, Bush assembled top security officials, including Weinberger, General Vessey and key White House aides for a meeting that began at 9 a.m. and lasted almost two hours. Summed up one participant: "Everyone was gung-ho." The President joined the conversation via speakerphone for five minutes. One White House staffer warned that there would be "a lot of harsh political reaction" to a U.S. strike at the small island nation. Replied the President: "I know that. I accept that." Still, Weinberger and Vessey wanted to learn more about the weapons and willingness to fight of the Cubans...
Partly it is the odd nature of the Marines' mission that angers the Meurers, and that apparently galled Ronald. Until he went to Beirut, according to his mother, "he was gung-ho. He was all Marine." Explains his sister Robin: "He'd always felt like he had to prove himself, and he thought if he could make it in the Marines, he would. He just wanted his family to be proud of him." But when he returned to the States on leave this summer, his mother says, "he didn't want to go back. He said...
Even Captain Hoover, as gung-ho as he seems, knows the horrors. "I've lost a good friend," he said. A few days ear lier, the of his fellow captains was killed by sniper fire at the airport. For Hoover last week, three days before his head quarters was wiped out, the losses still seemed of emotionally manageable proportions. Casualties had happened one or a few at a time. "No one likes to hear about Marines being killed or wounded," Hoover said. "I've known half of the men who have been killed, one particularly well. That...
Much of the humor in the first act derives from the audience's initial reaction to the stereotypes the characters present. There's the gung ho Zola sporting a fatigue jacket with more buttons with slogans on it than a campus kiosk. There's the mercenary Kevin (Brad Dalton) able to wield statistics better than a Gallup pollster for whom efficiency is more important than substance. The incongruity of pink and green Joan (Fori Daniel) is good for a few laughs when she walks onto the room boyfriend (Eliot Meyers) in tow. She reminds us of our own foibles when...