30 Friday, December 2, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Questions for Weinberger After Beirut Tragedy
tized Weinberger in a Nov. 4 special capabilities for
editorial, printed Wein- handling burn and shock
berger's response on Nov. trauma cases. Why were
14, and printed a crushing, these offers not ac-
detailed indictment by Rep. cepted?
James H. Scheuer (D-N.Y.)
"Mr. Weinberger, in a let-
and another editorial on ter to The Sun published
Nov. 18.
Monday, said that wounded
The editorial, "Questions Marines 'moving by fixed
for Weinberger," is excerp- wing aircraft . . . were able
ted here:
to reach Cyprus faster than
"Let Secretary Wein- if they had moved by
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the following matters:
raeli facilities.' The real
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"Beginning two hours issue is when the two differ-
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bam has personnel and They could as easily have
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medical equipment with been flown to Haifa.
"Compare this to the fact
that the first fixed-wing air-
craft, a British C-130, did
not leave Beirut for Cyprus
until nine hours after the
explosion. The first Ameri-
can fixed-wing transport
did not leave Beirut for
Naples until 13 hours after
the tragedy. To compare fly-
ing times without taking
departure times into con-
sideration is spurious.
"Congressman Scheuer
challenges the contention of
Pentagon officials that they
were 'following established
procedures' calling for the
transport of wounded to
U.S. hospitals. If this is so,
why did the United States
fly injured Marines to an
understaffed 'British base
hospital on Cyprus when
they could have been taken
four to six hours earlier to a
world-class hospital in
Haifa? Why did we say yes
to one ally, and no to an-
other?
"Mr. Weinberger stated
in his letter to The Sun
that 'the single Service
member who died in-
flight after being re-
moved from Beirut was
already fatally injured
with death imminent re-
gardless of medical
treatment.' This was in
response to our query as
to whether any serv-
icemen had died need-
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offer was not accepted.
"The secretary's reply is
far from adequate. Did any
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the nine-plus hours before
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available? Would the one
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from Israel.' What was he
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talking about? 'Two
Layaways Invited
hundred body bags for our
dead,' said Mr. Scheuer. The
U.S. never accepted special
Israeli inflating equipment
to raise rubble from injured
persons. Why not?
"Mr. Weinberger con-
cluded his letter to this
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Secretary of Defense Cas-
par Weinberger's failure to
utilize Israel's offer of medi-
cal assistance after the Oct.
23 truck-bombing of U.S.
Marine headquarters at Be-
irut International Airport
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of dispute.
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ern Lebanon, were hit by a
terrorist attack. What he
failed to mention was that
all Israeli injured were
taken to Rambam in two
hours.
"Beirut and its aftermath
ought to haunt the Ameri-
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