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...Marine casualties heightened the confusion over the precise role and duration of the U.S. peace-keeping mission. At his Washington press conference last week, the President astounded aides by intimating that the Marines would not leave Beirut until all Israeli and Syrian forces had withdrawn from Lebanon. Officials at the State Department and White House subsequently issued elaborate clarifications of what Reagan really meant. State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg insisted that the withdrawal of foreign troops was a goal but not "a criterion" for a U.S. departure. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Assistant Secretary of State Nicholas Veliotes...
...weeks ago, Peter McPherson, 41, was breakfasting in Beirut when there was a shattering explosion in the air. He leaped to his feet to watch a plummeting Syrian MiG. The reality of his job as Reagan's Special Representative for Relief and Reconstruction in Lebanon came home. Raised on a Michigan farm of 500 acres, McPherson now tends U.S. aid in 60 countries round the globe...
WASHINGTON The 800 U.S. Marines who landed in Beirut yesterday likely will be joined by another 400 leathernecks with tanks and artillery possibly as early as today according to Pentagon officials President Reagan said the Americans may stay in Lebanon even after Israeli and Syrian troops leave...
However neither Israel nor Syrian has indicated publicly that it expects the withdrawal to be rapid...
Moscow, which has been frozen out of the Middle East by its failure to give any effective support to its Syrian, Iraqi and P.L.O. allies, would certainly jump at any invitation. At a Kremlin dinner last week for President Ali Nasser Mohammed of South Yemen, Brezhnev denounced Reagan's plan as "basically vicious" and put forward one of his own that paralleled the Fez resolutions. Israelis, Arabs and Americans all appraised it, accurately, as containing little...