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Vol. 94, No. 46 (USPS 650-640)
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Monday morning, October 24, 1983
146 Marines killed in Beirut bombing; tragedy ignites anger and accusations
United Press International
BEIBUT, Lebanon - A wounded marine is rescued from the ruins of a demolished building. A truck packed with explosives rammed the building yesterday.
Terrorists use truck bombs to attack base
By United Press International
The suicide attacks wounded at least 69 other Marines and 12 French soldiers. It was the heaviest loss of life in a single incident involving U.S. servicemen since the Vietnam War.
A previously unknown group calling itself the Free Islamic Revolution Movement claimed responsibility for the simultaneous pre-dawn attacks in the town of Erbil, the office of the French Presse news agency.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — At least 146 U.S. Marines and 31 French troops were killed yesterday by terrorists who crashed two trucks packed with thousands of pounds of explosives into a Marine headquarters and a French peace-keeping post three miles away.
MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS a minute apart destroyed both buildings, crushing hundreds of
More Mideast news, pp. 10, 11.
sleeping Marines and French paratroops beneath tons of burning rubble.
"The number of wounded will go higher," a Pentagon spokesman said.
"We intend to respond to this criminal act when the perpetrators are identified." White House spokesman Larry Speakes said in Washington.
He said Marine Commandant Paul K. Xellery would be dispatched to Lebanon to review the operation.
Maj. Robert Jordan, a marine spokesman in Beirut, said between two weeks people were calling for the UN to explain.
"I have not seen carriage like this since Vietnam," said Jordan, a veteran of the Vietnam War.
OUTSIDE THE MARINES' post, letters from home, American newspapers, a rock cassette, "Hooligans," by The Who, snapshots of a Marine weightlifter and a paperback novel titled "Deathwind of Vedan" were littered for hundreds of vards.
In an anonymous telephone call to Agence France Presse, the Free Islamic Revolution Movement said the attack had been carried out
See MIDEAST, p. 11, col. 1
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A U.S. Marine wipes away a tear while avoiding sniper fire.
Attack angers Reagan; U.S. troops will remain
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, vowing that U.S. peace-keeping forces would not be driven from Lebanon, yesterday called the suicide bombing raids on Marines in Beirut a despicable act, and sought to improve their safety.
Worldwide, officials expressed outrage and disbelief over the terrorist attack that left at least 146 Americans dead and 69 wounded.
At the conclusion of the second top-level White House meeting of the day, presidential spokesman Larry Speaks said Reagan directed Marine Commandant Paul Kelley to go to Beirut to undertake a full review of protective measures after the "deliberate and heinous" attack.
LATER, THE PENTAGON announced that Kelley would leave this morning for Burtu to "conduct a full survey designed, among other things, on the Marines to occupy that will reduce their valuers' bollity to hostile attack."
Speakes said, "We intend to respond to the criminal act when the perpetrators are caught."
The statement came after Reagan met for more than four hours with his top national security advisers to explore who was behind the latest bloodshed in Lebanon and how the United States should respond.
Lebanese President Amin Gemayel said the bombing was aimed at
Responses from world leaders condemned the act.
See REAGAN, p. 10, col. 3
Views differ in response to bombing
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
A Lebanese graduate student, whose family lives just a few blocks from the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, said yesterday that he was not surprised by the bombing that killed at least 146 Marines.
"The atmosphere there is very poisonous. We expected something like this to happen at any time," said Amer Beirut, Lebanon, graduate student.
He said he had spent most of the morning trying to call his relatives to make sure that they had not been injured as a result of the bombing.
He also spent a lot of time yesterday
discussing the incident with several of his Lebanese friends, he said.
Hassan said that he and his friends were sorry about the loss of American
See REACTION, p. 10, col. 1
WASHINGTON - President Reagan says Marines will stay in Lebanon.
Democrats say Reagan is exceeding his power
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic senators yesterday denounced President Reagan's Mideast policy in regard to the U.S. peace-keeping force, and others said the president was violating the War Powers Act.
"President Reagan should report to Congress under the War Powers Act as he should have done in the first place," said Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif.
ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL hopeful, Ernest Hollings, D-S.C.
"President Reagan has landed us in a total mess and there's no clear way out now," Crasten said. "We cannot retreat under fire and if we were to declare war we wouldn't know who to declare war against."
said, "The president is still in violation of the War Powers Act. He should either come to Congress or get out. This deployment of American boys in this type of situation borders on the criminal and is doing us no good at all."
Sen. Gary Hart, D-Dolo., another presidential contender, said, "The continued slaughter of U.S. personnel cannot be tolerated. Increasingly, the American people, through their elected officials in Congress, will require the president to comply with the War Powers Act. It is clear that a U.S. military presence in the area is not the right answer."
The War Powers Resolution, adopted after the Vietnam War in 1973, requires a president to notify Congress when
See WAR, p. 10, col. 3
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