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...resignation had become a Washington joke. This time, however, Reagan was also worn down by the friction and was fully pre pared to let Haig go. Yet, until the very moment that an obviously strained and tense Reagan stepped before the TV cameras to make his terse (1 min. 11 sec.) announcement of Haig's resignation, there had been no hint that the President had not only agreed to his departure but had already chosen a successor. The nation, the world and even members of the National Security Council who had attended a luncheon meeting with Reagan and Haig...
Reagan was prepared to accept Haig's resignation on the spot, but did not get a chance. Apparently, Haig overnight once more had second thoughts. During his 20-min. meeting with the President, the Secretary ran through the same list of complaints he had presented...
When the hostilities began, Beirut Bureau Chief Roberto Suro was on vacation in Athens, Greece. Quickly, he headed back to Lebanon, ordinarily a 90-min. flight but now, with Beirut's airport closed, a grueling, scrambling 2-1/2 day ordeal. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, returning to Beirut from an overnight visit to Syria, drove along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon...
...fighter. I shook Gerry Cooney's hand before the fight and I shook his hand after the fight. No hard feelings." For his part, Cooney said of Holmes, "He's the champion. No bitterness." Cooney finally conceded, "I was a little rusty." A cumulative total of 3 min. 43 sec. in two fights over two years is an insufficient time in the ring. "I didn't have the push I should have had. I will next time...
Watergate produced strange, wonderful double-entendre evasion. White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt Jr. referred to the famous 18½-min. gap on one tape as an "obliteration of the intelligence." Alexander Haig told Judge John Sirica that the gap might have been caused by "some sinister force...