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...April 20 and May 6. Designed to test U.S. units in rapid deployment, Ocean Venture will stretch from the Caribbean to the Gulf of Mexico, the Straits of Florida and the U.S. Atlantic Coast. Units including the 82nd Airborne, the 26th Marine Amphibious Unit and some 250 Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command aircraft will take part in the operation. Among their activities will be amphibious landings and air assault operations on the Caribbean island of Vieques, site of a U.S. naval facility next door to Puerto Rico...
...enough to absorb the complete vocabulary of the job. I kept pressing him. He said he had ordered pilots of the Strategic Air Command to their bases...
...days later?at 2:35 p.m. on Monday, March 30?the State Department command center informed me that the television networks were reporting that a gunman had fired shots at President Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel but that the President had escaped injury. I picked up a telephone connected to a direct White House line. James Baker told me that the first report was inaccurate. The President had been struck "in the back" by a bullet. "It looks quite serious," Baker said. "I'm going to the hospital...
...Pentagon also plans to conduct Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercises in Honduras. Men from units based in the southern U.S. or at the Army's Southern Command in Panama will be flown in. One such exercise will begin on Thursday-just three days before the presidential balloting in El Salvador. Predicts a U.S. embassy source in Tegucigalpa: "You're going to see some muscle flexing around here in the next couple of weeks...
Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas is less pessimistic. "The fact that the crimes have decreased over the past few months is positive," he says quietly. He confirms that the armed forces have asked the church to send priests to visit military command posts and give talks on human rights to soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many...