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...tragedy as unavoidable. Four days after the bombing, President Reagan said in a televised speech that the truck "crashed through a series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements. Guards opened fire, but it was too late." A week later, Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley asserted that the truck slammed through the barbed wire at 60 m.p.h., sped past two armed sentries, burst through an iron gate and jumped over an 18-in. pipe before exploding...
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Your story about General Paul X. Kelley's conversation with a wounded Marine [Nov. 7] reveals the general's naiveté. In the language of the Marine Corps, Semper Fi does not mean "always faithful." The expression connotes something rather different...
...Kelley explained that Marines can load their rifles in "two seconds" and "in my professional judgment, it would have been impossible to stop the truck with small-arms fire." Retorted Kentucky's Representative Larry Hopkins: "Maybe the M-16 would not have stopped the truck. We'll never know. But one thing we do know is that an empty M-16 couldn't have stopped the truck." In fact, during last week's almost identical attack on an Israeli military headquarters in southern Lebanon, an Israeli guard did shoot the driver, causing the truck to explode...
Representative Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma asked Kelley why there were so many Marines in one building, considering that "in the Middle East, terrorism is just as much a function of their use of power as our use of the M-l tank." Kelley defended the arrangement, saying that the four-story concrete structure had been chosen because it had withstood the Israeli siege last year. But Representative Sonny Montgomery of Mississippi, who led an eleven-member House contingent that traveled to Beirut a few days after the blast, said it had been immediately clear to his group that the setup...