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...video showed a Marine reacting to the question of how he would respond to orders to disarm Americans. Marines, he said, are authorized to disobey laws they believe are wrong. Another clip featured ABC-TV's John Stoessel, who said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot cite statistics that prove measures like waiting periods and the Brady Bill have reduced accidental shooting deaths. Another clip featured a woman who saw her parents die in the infamous 1991 mass killings in a Killeen, Texas cafeteria. She'd left her gun in the car, as the legislature had mandated...
...stormed Port Stanley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick had been the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Argentine Ambassador Takacs, an extraordinary accident of timing by the Argentines, if it was an accident. With Kirkpatrick at the function was Deputy Secretary of State Walter J. Stoessel, the highest-ranking U.S. career diplomat. Trying to explain the embarrassment, the State Department said only that the affair had been scheduled long before the invasion. British Ambassador Henderson noted the attendance of Kirkpatrick and Stoessel at the dinner and declared sarcastically: "We are not thrilled...
Teicher, a member of the National Security Council staff under Reagan, remembers an April 1982 meeting between Walter Stoessel, then Deputy Secretary of State, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. At the time, Iranian troops had recaptured much of the territory Iraq had seized in the first weeks of the war. At the end of the meeting, Teicher recalls, "Mubarak held my hand and wouldn't let go. He talked to me about the desperate situation Saddam Hussein was in, and the absolute necessity for America to find ways to help him. He wanted me to take his message back...
...National Security Council, visited the former President's home in Plains, Ga., three times, beginning in June, to brief Carter on events in the region and the Administration's developing plans. The final visit was last Wednesday, when Kemp, accompanied by Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel, outlined the proposals that Reagan was about to present...
According to State Department sources, Haig's first instructions were indeed to join the British veto. But when Haig returned from the opening dinner at Versailles, he received a call from Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel recommending that the decision be reconsidered in light of changes made in an attempt to strengthen the link between a cease-fire and an Argentine withdrawal. Haig concurred. He discussed the changes with British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and then telephoned instructions to Stoessel to tell Kirkpatrick to abstain from the vote. Finding that he was too late, Haig asked that Kirkpatrick...