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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was coming to Washington at the end of February. Lawrence Eagleburger, whom Haig had designated Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, managed to insert a clear-cut endorsement of the 1979 decision into the text of remarks that Reagan would make during a public appearance with Thatcher. Eagleburger, a career diplomat and former aide to Henry Kissinger, was, like Haig, concerned with reassuring the Europeans that the new Administration felt bound to preserve a certain amount of continuity in U.S. policy. The ploy worked. Now the President had committed his Administration to following both tracks, deployment...
With a minimum of help from Orza and Rusnak, Fridkin showed, using Patty Pelvis, that men too can insert diaphragms...
Marine sentries who had not been allowed to insert ammunition in their weapons three weeks ago now stand guard with fully loaded guns. Some of those who had been based in Beirut were being billeted on American ships and ferried ashore by helicopters. Others were hard at work building new fortifications. Most guard posts were being reinforced and rearmed. Six-foot-high mounds of dirt, rows of tar-filled steel drums, sandbags and concertina wire blocked off the entrance to the Marine compound. Ironically, the little-used route through the parking lot that had been followed by a suicide bomber...
...twice to pick up speed (2), then hurtled through a roll of barbed wire (3) and sped between two guard posts (4). Two sentries were on duty, and under the Marines' standing orders for duty within the compound, their M-16 rifles were unloaded. As they struggled to insert their weapons' magazines, the vehicle crashed through a wrought-iron gate (5) and into the Marine compound. Either bouncing over or thrusting aside a single 18-in. sewer pipe (6) that was supposed to protect the entrance, the truck crashed through or went around a flimsy guardhouse...
...candidate sparked 20 seconds of applause and anti-Reagan slurs from the audience when he drew a connection between the need for minority coalitions to insert their interests and the need for all Americans to oppose what he said is a world trend towards militarism...