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...brusque rejection of the Reagan peace plan overshadowed some good news for the U.S.: the departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from West Beirut had gone so smoothly that the 800 U.S. Marines who had been sent to Lebanon as peace-keepers were being withdrawn almost two weeks ahead of schedule...
...advice of his brother Robert, the Attorney General, JFK decided late Saturday night to ignore Khruschev's more belligerent letter but warned that if the missiles were not withdrawn by Sunday, invasions or air strikes would follow. The next day, Khruschev announced the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles, saying, "We are confident that reason will triumph, that war will not be unleashed, and peace and security of the peoples will be insured...
Even by the arcane standards of Lebanon's contorted politics, it was an extraordinary election. Despite demands by Lebanese leftist and Muslim politicians that the voting be postponed until Israeli troops had withdrawn from Beirut, the deeply divided Parliament went ahead last week and elected Israel's chief military and political ally in Lebanon to a six-year term as President. He is Bashir Gemayel, 34, commander of the country's principal Christian militias and leader of the Phalangist Party. Gemayel was the only candidate for the post, largely because no other Christian leader dared to oppose...
...which Nagorski contributed, depicting Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as a dying man who was losing political control. But Nagorski got more than a routine dressing down. Press Office Deputy Director Yuri Viktorov brusquely foreclosed all discussion: Your accreditation as the Newsweek correspondent in Moscow, he began, is being withdrawn...
...responding to a request from Lebanese President Camille Chamoun, President Dwight Eisenhower sent a force of more than 14,000 Marines and soldiers to Lebanon to strengthen the Chamoun government against dissidents and to guarantee free elections. Those elections resulted in Chamoun's defeat, and the U.S. troops were withdrawn in October...