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Some Administration officials expressed fears that the bombing would stir a national debate on Middle East policy, creating pressures ranging from a pullout of the Marines to retaliation. All the unanswered questions aired when Reagan first asked Congress to approve the U.S. Marine presence in Lebanon seemed sure to arise again. Congress gave the President the necessary authority four weeks ago to keep the Marines in Lebanon?but with considerable reluctance; in the Senate the resolution passed by a vote of only 54 to 46. New York Democrat Samuel Stratton, a hawkish veteran of the House Armed Services...
...Nobel committee declared that his activities had "been characterized by a determination to solve his country's problems through negotiation and cooperation without resorting to violence." It added: "Lech Walesa's contribution is both an inspiration and an example." The committee knew its decision would create a stir. Said Chairman Egil Aarvik: "I don't expect any thanks or gratitude from the Polish authorities. But I can imagine that the attitude of the Polish people will be very different...
...bizarre footnote. Nixon's chief deputy, Al Haig, once warned Kissinger that "it may be necessary to put in the 82nd Airborne Division around the White House" to protect the President should he seek to stay in power. Even the belated report of this calamitous possibility created little stir. Whatever other nations might do in crisis, it seemed inconceivable to Americans that troops could be called out to protect or to overthrow their leaders. Change might be sweeping, but there were understood limits...
...archdiocese, the nation's third largest; of heart failure; in Boston. Ordained in 1946, he became bishop of Brownsville, Texas, in 1966 and succeeded Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing in 1970. "A gentle, compassionate man," in the words of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, he caused a stir in 1980 by opposing pro-abortion candidates...
Luckily, Reagan had called in reinforcements. He enlisted his daughter Maureen to work part-time at the Republican National Committee. Her job: to encourage more Republican feminists to become involved in party politics. But some White House aides fear that she will be a renegade advocate who will stir up even more trouble within the Administration. "She is a 600-pound gorilla," said a top Reagan adviser bluntly. "She can intimidate anybody. She'll go right...