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...White placed Reagan's lead at an astronomical level: 54% to 26%. That was before Reagan took a few questions from reporters on the eve of his United Nations speech in New York. He conceded that security arrangements at the new embassy had not been finished when a terrorist zigzagged an explosives-laden truck around concrete barriers and set off a blast that killed at least 13 people, including two Americans. With a smile, the President then suggested a singularly inappropriate analogy: "Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done...
That was hardly a compelling excuse for the slipshod embassy security (see box), especially since there had been public threats from a terrorist group that it would attack U.S. installations in Beirut. Moreover, the previous truck-bomb assaults (at the original West Beirut embassy on April 18, 1983, and the Marine headquarters near the airport last Oct. 23) should have been lesson enough that greater security was needed...
...information concerning terrorist threats remained so scarce and fuzzy, critics argue, then more extensive security precautions should have automatically been taken. And the Administration, at least at lower levels, did have a warning from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency before the attack, a report presciently titled, "High Threat Against U.S. Personnel and Facilities Continues." It said that the new East Beirut embassy was "highly vulnerable to... vehicular bombing...
...Israel against Syrian troops. These diplomats do not believe that Damascus has dropped its demand that Jerusalem unilaterally withdraw its soldiers and disband the Israeli-supplied Lebanese militia that helps patrol the region. Syria, however, may offer vague assurances that Israel's northern border will be protected from terrorist attacks. One possibility includes deploying the Lebanese Army in the south and beefing up the 5,700-man U.N. peace-keeping force in the area...
True to form, Lessing is staying one step ahead of her critics. She has finished a new novel, her 19th, to be published next year. It concerns a young Englishwoman who drifts into terrorist activity, an apparent return to the political subject matter of Lessing's earlier work. Despite "a few very nice fan letters," she has no plans to resurrect Jane Somers in print, though fans and critics will undoubtedly race to read the pseudonymous works and fit them into Lessing's oeuvre. The irony of that does not escape the author. Were...