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...under cloudy skies with two Cabinet officers and a former Senator. Now he was seated in a Secret Service car parked near the 16th green trying to talk by radiotelephone to the driver holding hostages in the famed club's pro shop, some 1,000 yards away. The pistol-carrying man had already fired one shot into the floor and was threatening to kill anyone who did not cooperate. But although he had demanded a chance to talk to Reagan, he insisted on doing so face-to-face. The sometimes incoherent man kept hanging up on the President...
Harris drove a few hundred feet to the pro shop and entered. There he waved his .38-cal. snub-nosed pistol at two White House aides, David Fischer, a special assistant who travels regularly with the President, and Lanny Wiles, an advanceman. Harris ordered the pair as well as three other men into a back room. "This is no joke," he warned. "Somebody could be killed." Fischer convinced him that since the President was out on the course, Fischer would have to go deliver Harris' message himself...
Other sources close to the investigation noted that the .357 magnum pistol allegedly taken from Galman was handled by so many soldiers that no one will be able to determine if Galman's fingerprints are oh the gun. Seno further disclosed that paraffin tests carried out on the five supposedly unarmed men who escorted Aquino off the plane indicated that two showed "positive" results for nitrates on their hands, a finding that suggested they could have handled a gun. Seno's comments appeared in Filipino newspapers after being reported by the Associated Press. On Friday, the presidential palace...
There are less than 40 American soldiers in EI Salvador. They are non-combat troops serving as military instructors for the EI Salvadoran army. Not a man has fired a pistol in battle, no causalities have been taken, and our involvement there, at least in manpower, appears to be as large as it's going to get. We have 1200 U.S. Marines in Lebanon Nearly forty of them have been wounded. Four have been killed. They have been ordered by the President to fire in response to attack. The admirals and captains commanding the ships that make up the American...
...quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...