Word: lebanons
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Perot has had access to Presidents since he first visited Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. Perot was Ronald Reagan's kind of guy. Reagan appointed him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Reagan thanked Perot for bankrolling three attempts to rescue American hostages in Lebanon. When he was Vice President, Bush arranged for Perot to have a private conversation with Reagan at Blair House to discuss American prisoners Perot believed were being held captive in Southeast Asia. Perot reported that the President had "personally asked me to stay on top of the issue." But when Reagan cooled...
...breathe. You'd get exhaust fumes underneath the truck. I was deathly afraid during one move that I was going to vomit -- I was very sick, and of course my mouth was taped up -- and that I would choke to death on my vomit. When we went to South Lebanon, it was four or five hours underneath that thing...
...only the leaders of former Yugoslavia can decide on a course. For now,they seem bent on further anarchy. "Too many people, too often and too fast, are prepared to resort to the use of the gun and the bayonet," says Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. As Lebanon demonstrated through 16 years of misery and chaos, no outside force can impose peace on a country -- or leaders -- bent on war. Perhaps the West can only sit back and wait until the ethnic groups feel they have no more blood to give. Then, when they come for help...
...Nicosia, Coleman saw the supposedly controlled shipments of heroin, called kourah in Lebanon -- inspiration for the CIA operation's code name COREA -- grow into a torrent. The drugs were delivered by couriers who arrived on the overnight ferry from the Lebanese port of Jounieh. After receiving their travel orders from the DEA, the couriers were escorted to the Larnaca airport by the Cypriot national police and sent on their way to Frankfurt and other European transit points. The DEA testified at hearings in Washington that no "controlled deliveries" of drugs through Frankfurt were made...
...took three informants just to keep tabs on al-Kassar," claims Coleman. He said the informants reported that al-Kassar and the Syrian President's brother Rifaat Assad were taking over drug production in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, under protection of the Syrian army. Coleman also says he learned that the principal European transfer point for their heroin shipments was the Frankfurt airport...