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...Lebanese Army positions in the nearby town of Khalde. The firefight picked up, and soon the Marines were being hit by the most intensive bombardment they had faced in Lebanon. One company reported it was being shelled by multiple-launched 107-mm or 122-mm rockets. Another said its command post was being hit by a 23-mm antiaircraft weapon only 817 yards away. Machine-gun and small-arms fire was fierce. "I was scared to death," said Staff Sergeant Eddie Evans, 28, of Smithfield, Term...
...ever been. It also seemed to place the Syrians in a somewhat stronger psychological position in regard to the U.S. Syrian authorities turned over the body of the dead pilot, Lieut. Mark A. Lange, 26, of Fraser, Mich., to the Lebanese Army for relay to the U.S. command in Beirut. But the Syrian Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, said his government would not surrender the captured pilot, Lieut. Robert O. Goodman, 27, of Portsmouth, N.H., until "the war has ended and American troops have left Lebanon...
...incident, most likely a heart attack, and that he is slowly mending. According to Israeli intelligence sources, Assad has been instructed by doctors not to talk, so instead he spends his waking hours scribbling notes to aides. While both U.S. and Israeli officials believe that Assad is in full command of his senses, the consensus is that it will be some time before the Syrian President can resume his usual 18-hour workdays. There are conflicting rumors about who is running the country. Sources ranging from P.L.O. officials to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir have told reporters that a five...
...being replaced by the posh and prestigious desk diary. Bound in padded leather with the owner's name or initials stamped in gold on the cover and decorated with silken page markers, the best-bred datebooks look a bit like church hymnals, and they command nearly the same reverence...
...relegated No. 4 to managing the vehicle's environmental systems. The fifth computer was on standby. Later, when he was safely on the ground, Young confessed: "When the first one went, my knees shook. When the second went, I turned to jelly." Eventually, Mission Control was able to command No. 2 back into action, although its performance was erratic. No. 1 remained dead for the rest of the flight...