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...Colonel Timothy Geraghty, commander of the Marines in Beirut, Kelley watched silently as two more bodies were dragged out of the ruins. The next day, under a tight cloak of secrecy, Bush flew on Air Force Two from Washington to Cyprus, where he boarded a helicopter for the Iwo Jima. His arrival in Beirut was delayed for more than an hour when Marine positions east of the airport came under mortar attack from a Druze stronghold in the hills above. The Marines returned the fire, and the shelling died...
...Americans came onto the battlefield and found that it was all quicksand and fog. Viet Nam was morally impenetrable as well. Americans could not tell enemies from friends. The war became a terrible waste of idealism. An older generation of men who had had their war at Normandy and Iwo Jima would grow nostalgic for the moral simplicities they had known. After the Tet offensive in 1968, Viet Nam came to seem as futile as the Western Front once had to the men in the trenches, a mere killing ground. President Richard Nixon promised to depart from Viet Nam when...
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki reduced to radioactive powder. All of those American firestorms had, of course, consumed innocent civilians. But, the ceremonies said, never mind, evil went down for the count. Ego te absolvo. You boys did what you had to do. Where were you anyway?the Bulge? Anzio? Tarawa? Iwo? Say, that must have been tough. Tell me about it. Let me buy you another...
...Minn., has suffered three heart attacks and two strokes. Although his parents are alive at 89 and 82, he has had severe cataracts removed, is sterile, and must take two dozen pills a day. His problems, he insists, stem from his two years as an Army radar repairman on Iwo Jima during World War II when he was so severely exposed to microwaves that his brown hair turned red. Says he: "I was cooked...
Ironically, Warnke's critics may be unnecessarily worried about his future role in arms talks. If past experience is any guide, the key SALT decisions will not be made by the Iwo negotiating learns but by top-ranking U.S. and Soviet officials, usually in Moscow or Washington, using the so-called back channel. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, however, has pledged that Warnke will conduct "real negotiations" on disarmament. Warnke's strength is the fact that he is so solidly plugged into the Washington power structure. He is now a senior partner in Clark Clifford...