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Reagan and Shultz deliberately continued to play golf on Saturday, knowing that a sudden return to Washington would fuel speculation. Suddenly, in the afternoon, Reagan took a break for a bizarre reason: a drunken gunman wanting to see him had crashed his pickup truck through a golf course gate and held hostages in the club's pro shop. After trying in vain to talk to the man by telephone, Reagan was whisked back from the 16th hole to the Eisenhower cabin by heavily armed Secret Service agents...
...double act of horror left a tangle of questions. Both truck drivers blew themselves to smithereens when they swerved madly into their targets and detonated their deadly cargoes. But who was behind the attacks? Why was security not more stringent, especially after a nearly identical attack hit the U.S. embassy in Beirut last April, killing 63 people? Can the safety of the Marines now be ensured...
...most haunting tale belonged to Lance Corporal Robert Calhoun, who was stationed on the roof of the building when the truck came hurtling across the parking lot. "The explosion hit, and everything started falling," Calhoun recalled. "I thought, 'This is how I am going to die.' " Afterward, Calhoun said, he talked with the sentry who had manned the entry gate bypassed by the truck. Said Calhoun: "He says just as the man went by, he'll always remember, the guy was smiling...
...naval hospital at Agnano, near Naples, Lance Corporal Wayne Harris, 22, of Richmond, recounted how he was trapped for four hours. "First I was screaming a lot, but then I got worried about losing my air. Finally I just passed out and came to in the back of a truck." Ways of escape could be serendipitous as well as terrifying. Lance Corporal Adam Webb, 20, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, one of four guards on the roof, glimpsed the speeding truck as it disappeared below him. Webb felt the roof crack, then rode it down the four stories to the ground. Sliding...
Corporal James Hines, 22, of Forest City, Iowa, was not even in the building but was sleeping in a tent about 20 yds. away. "I heard somebody yell to stop the truck, then I saw a flash of light." Entangled in debris, with dirt raining down, Hines squirmed his legs free and began kicking wildly. Rescuers spotted the legs and pulled him out before he suffocated. Did he feel lucky? "I think the chaplain put that rather well," Hines said quietly. "He called us 'the chosen...