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...more of the heart's arteries, some no thicker than a straw. Last week a nine-member court-martial jury found that Commander Donal Billig, a Navy doctor and former chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, had "wrongfully" performed that delicate operation. The result: two retired servicemen, Lieut. Colonel John Kas and Petty Officer Joe Estep, died in 1984 after Billig operated on them...
...their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root out guerrilla bases used for staging attacks inside the border security zone and against northern Israel. During the raid, at least 15 Lebanese and two Israeli servicemen were killed. At week's end, the Israelis began to withdraw troops, following reports that the captured soldiers were not in the area. One of them may have been executed...
Reagan flew here to honor the 19 servicemen killed in three days of fighting that forced Cuban troops from Grenada and led to formation of a democratically elected government...
...proved and even if some innocent people might be killed. Associates say his advocacy is driven by both policy conviction and personal agony. A Marine officer in World War II, Shultz was devastated by the October 1983 suicide bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 U.S. servicemen...
...beyond the previous 1974 record of 1,299. The disaster was also the second to strike American troops assigned to peacekeeping roles in the fractious Middle East. On Oct. 23, 1983, a terrorist's suicidal truck-bomb attack on a Marine headquarters in Beirut killed 241 servicemen. Though a Lebanon-based terror group, Islamic Jihad, claimed it had caused the latest crash with a bomb, Canadian officials quickly discouraged speculation that sabotage may have been involved. Pentagon officials agreed with that early assessment...