Word: servicemen
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...phony attack from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, a claim that is hotly disputed by Coughlin & Co. In any case, insisted Base Commander Major General Donald J. Fulham, there is no way to secure completely a 110,000-acre facility that is home to 40,000 servicemen and their families. Keeping the base relatively open, he said, was important to both the Marines and the surrounding community. To do otherwise would be "disrupting the American way of life...
...than three hours, and at one point an ashen-faced Secretary of State George Shultz appeared to quarrel with a position just voiced by President Reagan. But the essence of the situation was only too clear: after the expenditure of 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...
Still, even Soviet servicemen equipped with the best Soviet weaponry often fall short of the Pentagon's image of the Soviet military as a fighting force. On paper, for example, Soviet air-defense forces command a string of 7,000 radar installations and 2,300 interceptor jets. Yet the fact that two Korean civilian aircraft were able to stray into Soviet airspace without being rapidly intercepted suggests that the defense shield is sievelike in spots...
...reassessment of the Marines' role began immediately after the Oct. 23 suicide bombing, which killed 241 servicemen. Weinberger, along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged that the Marines be transferred offshore, Secretary of State George Shultz was adamant that they be kept at the airport. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane sided with Shultz but he also asked the Pentagon to come up with redeployment options within Lebanon. The Defense Department, however, kept pressuring for a withdrawal...
...fighting in Beirut intensified, so did the skirmishing between the White House and Congress over the Marine presence in Lebanon. Prodded by Speaker Tip O'Neill, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held hearings on a resolution that urged the "prompt and orderly withdrawal" of the 1,800 servicemen...