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...called troika at the top consists of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, Reagan's closest personal aide. Within half an hour of the shooting, the troika set up a kind of command post at the hospital, and once the President was recuperating funneled briefing papers to him (greatly condensed to avoid taxing his strength...
Parr ordered the driver to turn right and rush toward George Washington University Hospital, 1½ miles from the Hilton. By radio Parr advised the Secret Service command post at the White House: "Rawhide is heading for George Washington." Rawhide is Reagan's apt Secret Service code name. His limousine is called Stagecoach...
...spoke German and Spanish easily, dropped out of Harvard to try his hand at business (the Shaws had grown rich in the China trade). He was a serious youth but no zealot. Before the first Confederate shell hit Fort Sumter, however, Shaw had already enlisted. When Andrew offered him command of the black 54th, he wrote back saying he lacked experience. He was only 25. Then he sent a countermanding telegram of acceptance. "Now I feel ready to die," said his proud mother, a dedicated abolitionist, "for I see you willing to give support to the cause of truth that...
...addition, local chapters were instructed to move their headquarters into major factory compounds in preparation for a general strike. Walesa was named to head a ten-man "strike command" committee that would operate from the Gdansk shipyard where last summer's labor revolt had begun. Finally, in an obvious reference to the intimidating Warsaw Pact troop maneuvers, the union issued a pledge not to "jeopardize law and order or Poland's foreign alliances...
DIED. Claude Auchinleck, 96, British field marshal who in 1941 opened the North African campaign that led to the defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; in Marrakesh, Morocco. After winning the first battle of El Alamein, Auchinleck was relieved of his command for refusing to counterattack Rommel west of Cairo...