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...Arab states to aid the U.S. militarily. Though Weinberger refused to divulge the details, he vigorously contended, "We are getting significant and welcome help from a lot of other countries." Weinberger has a point. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, for example, rushed search and rescue ships to the stricken U.S.S. Stark after an Iraqi fighter plane accidentally attacked the frigate last May, killing 37 men. Several Arab ports in the gulf, including Bahrain and Dubai, permit U.S. Navy ships to make rest-and-relaxation stops; sailors, however, must wear civilian clothes on land and obey curfews. Despite official denials, Kuwait...
...mixed voting record on contra aid, was receptive when visited last month by the Administration's new lobbyist on the issue, Tom Loeffler, a former Texas Republican Congressman. The two Texas pols, longtime friends despite their partisan differences, produced a plan that in effect offered the Sandinistas a stark choice: join in serious negotiations now or face a possible new infusion of U.S. military aid to the contras...
Until the attack on the Stark, former Chief of Staff Don Regan, his successor Howard Baker and other top White House aides never focused on the - political or military risks involved. Nor did the Congressmen who were informed seem interested in a full briefing. With the uproar over the Stark and the subsequent flurry of publicity about the reflagging plan, Baker and his men realized that the risks had not been adequately weighed. But by then it was impossible to back off, especially in the face of Iran's public crowing about the U.S.'s helplessness...
...gulf fiasco is only the latest ill-fated attempt by the Reagan Administration to assert U.S. interests by deploying troops on largely symbolic missions. The crew of the Stark was on a poorly defined mission when it was struck by wayward Iraqi Exocet missiles last May. In 1983 Marines deployed in Beirut turned out to be sitting ducks in an ill-protected barracks; 241 Americans were killed by a truck bomb. Despite the valor of those who fought in Grenada in 1983, the mission was beset by examples of military ineptitude and interservice rivalries. In Libya three years later, after...
DIED. Charles Stark Draper, 85, aeronautical engineer whose inertial- navigation system aided Apollo astronauts on their historic 1969 journey to the moon; of pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. An aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Missouri-born Draper was one of 15 scientists named TIME's Men of the Year...