Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitor to Robert McFarlane's Washington office a few months ago was surprised to see the former National Security Adviser kick the air boyishly in celebration. He had just wangled two tickets to a Naval Academy Glee Club concert in which his son was to appear. That unexpected display of emotion was memorable for its rarity, since Bud McFarlane is a man whom the word taciturn might have been invented to describe. But powerful emotions evidently boil behind McFarlane's studiedly enigmatic face, and last week they found a sad outlet...
...then appeared to be, in her words, "semilucid." Fearing that he had suffered a stroke, Jonda summoned a rescue squad. By the time it arrived she had discovered a note left by her husband, whose contents no one would divulge. Before an ambulance rushed him to nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital, the groggy McFarlane mumbled something to its crew about taking 25 to 30 Valium tranquilizer pills...
Though the U.S. had clearly ordered the Sixth Fleet to make a show of force, Washington denied that a rescue operation was being considered. In fact, asserted American officials, not altogether convincingly, the primary + reason for the unusually large concentration of naval power off Lebanon was the unpredictable course of the Iran-Iraq war, some 700 miles to the east. In that war, Iran is waging a continuing campaign against the southern Iraqi city of Basra and thereby posing an implicit threat to Iraq's gulf allies, most notably Kuwait. "We talk about our strategic interests in the context...
...cope with the deteriorating situation. In less than a month nine foreigners, including three U.S. citizens, were seized in the violence-torn Lebanese capital, bringing the number of foreign captives to 24. The Reagan Administration responded last week by ordering U.S. citizens out of Lebanon and strengthening its naval presence in the Middle East. In London the Archbishop of Canterbury sent urgent messages to Beirut seeking news of Waite. In Bonn authorities feared that more West Germans would be seized in addition to the two kidnaped in retaliation for last month's arrest of a terrorist wanted...
...Beirut a previously unknown group called Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine responded to U.S. naval movements by warning that it would kill the three Americans and one Indian national kidnaped from Beirut University College two weeks ago if the U.S. attacked Lebanon. Along with the message, they released a photo showing Hostage Robert Polhill, 52, an accounting lecturer from New York, with automatic weapons aimed at his head. The other captives: Alann Steen, 47, a journalism instructor who previously taught at California's Humboldt State University; Jesse Jonathan Turner, 39, a mathematics professor from Boise; and Mithileshwar Singh...