Word: naval
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...considerably more than $120 million, the deaths of 265 servicemen and the wounding of 134 more, the U.S. had decided to cut its losses in Lebanon. Neither by diplomacy, nor by the stationing of 1,600 Marines in a now almost surrounded encampment at Beirut airport, nor by naval gunfire had the U.S. been able to prop up the disintegrating government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. If that government survived at all, it would be at the sufferance of its Muslim opponents and Soviet-armed Syria. There was little left for Washington to do but announce a timetable for withdrawal...
...bring a resolution demanding Marine withdrawal from Lebanon before the House when Congressmen returned from an eleven-day recess on Feb. 21. Even some Republicans were sympathetic. In a provocative radio broadcast, only days before his sudden announcement of the Marine "redeployment" and the new rules for U.S. naval and aerial engagement in Lebanon, Reagan urged that the U.S. not "cut and run" from its positions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the President took a hard swipe at House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who had called Reagan's policy in Lebanon a failure, by declaring...
...withdraw their 1,200-member force from Beirut in favor of a U.N. contingent, even though creation of such a force would be unthinkable in the face of presumed Soviet opposition. In Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti summoned U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb to ask pointedly what the U.S. naval bombardment in Lebanon was expected to achieve...
Among Washington's moderate Arab friends in the Middle East, the redeployment and the thunder of U.S. naval batteries produced a different kind of apprehension. For the most part, the moderate Arab states were caught between a fear of weakening U.S. power and prestige in the region and a concern that increasingly direct U.S. confrontation with Syria would harden the lines between Arab states, on the one hand, and the U.S. and Israel, on the other. The latest U.S. military moves were particularly troubling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who, along with King Hussein of Jordan, is scheduled...
Asked whether Mondale would make an "acceptable" President, 80% of Democrats said yes. Of the other candidates, only Jesse Jackson showed an impressive increase in acceptability, probably attributable to freeing Naval Aviator Robert Goodman from Syria. But half of the Democrats still find Jackson unacceptable...