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...loaded with dynamite. The new public affairs officer seems dismayed that a reporter will ask him questions about the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion, a 300-man outfit that came here a month ago from Hunter Air" Force Base in Savannah, Ga. The unit's com-ound-within-a-compound is surrounded by a triple layer of barbed concertina wire and decorated with signs that say in both English and Spanish that the area is not to be either entered or photographed, and that the use of 'deadly force' is authorized against anyone who tries to do either...
...race, advocating not only a nuclear freeze, but also that the U.S. take immediate unilateral steps to halt the arms race. He urges a complete Marine withdrawal from Lebanon--a move he called for well in advance of most other candidates and before the bombing of the Marine compound--and the complete termination of all U.S. military operations in Central America. What makes these foreign policy positions all the more credible is that they are wholly consistent with McGovern's past positions--positions that have consistently born out his sound judgement. For example, McGovern was among the first Congressmen...
...Marines begin pulling out of Lebanon - a complex and potentially harrowing retreat that must be staged under the gunsights of the Muslim militia men who flank them on three sides. Men and matériel will move across a strip of uncontested land directly west of the Marine compound to the beach and out to sea. So far at least, the huge camp breaking was proceeding with remarkable smoothness. Summed up Base Commander Brigadier General James Joy: "The militiamen know our position is that if we are attacked, we are going to defend ourselves very vigorously, and my feeling...
...Amal militia, the latter by the Druze. Marines have managed to establish what Joy calls "limited but very workable contacts" with their new neighbors. One of the more active such channels is a Marine check point on the airport highway about a quarter of a mile from the compound's main gate; the Amal has set up a similar unit about 200 yards down the road. The leathernecks regularly converse with the miltiamen in an effort to keep relations smooth. One sore point arose over the Marines' use of German shepards trained to sniff out explosives carried...
Logistically, says a Marine officer in the Pentagon, withdrawing from Lebanon "is like peeling an onion in reverse." Action begins in the center, with the pullout of nonessential matériel and personnel, while an outer ring of rifle and machine-gun companies holds the compound perimeter until the end. In addition to the tons of equipment already moved out, about 250 men have been ferried to Navy ships off the coast, and more were scheduled to leave over the weekend. The Marines have deployed a 75-ft.-long pontoon bridge known as a Green-beach to carry truck-drawn...