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...commander of Camp Lejeune, instructed parents not to pay. They were further advised to forward the tuition invoices to designated unit officers, who in turn would present them to the Defense Department in Washington. Not long after the bills were sent to parents, the Department of Justice joined eight servicemen stationed at Camp Lejeune in a suit filed in U.S. district court in Raleigh, N.C., to ask a judge to declare the tuition plan unconstitutional. A ruling is expected by the end of next month...
...been doled out a parcel at a time since the Strategic Air Command left it in 1974. The base golf course was given to the neighboring town of Ludlow; an electric utility consortium purchased the vaults once used to store nuclear warheads. A private developer is currently converting onetime servicemen's residences into one, two-and three-bedroom units that will sell for $25,000 to $35,000. Now the base hospital and 45 adjacent acres are up for sale. The property is valued in the range...
...fighting forces from the country. First word of the U.S. plan came from Israeli radio, which had apparently been told of the top-secret offer by officials in Jerusalem. Annoyed by the premature disclosure, President Reagan promptly confirmed that he had agreed "in principle" to contribute a contingent of servicemen, most probably about 1,000 Marines, to a temporary, multinational force that would oversee the withdrawal of some 6,000 P.L.O. guerrillas from West Beirut. At week's end five ships from the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet, with 1,800 Marines aboard, were poised just over the horizon, about...
...women and children cannot protect us," although in private his aides hinted that they would welcome U.S. assistance in arranging a safe and orderly withdrawal of Palestinian forces from Lebanon to other Arab lands. In Washington, some members of Congress voiced doubts about the wisdom of sending American servicemen on a rescue mission to Lebanon for the second time in less than a quarter-century.* In Beirut, meanwhile, intermittent Israeli shelling and the blockade of West Beirut at times kept the leaders of the various Lebanese factions from meeting with one another, and indeed brought U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib...
...ensuring a peaceful solution in Lebanon. Said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois: "We are all reluctant to commit U.S. troops, but it should be considered if that is the only way to evacuate the P.L.O." But there was also considerable wariness about placing American servicemen in jeopardy. Democrat John