Diary Entry - 09/26/1982
Key Facts
President Reagan learns that the US Marines set to land in Lebanon today will now land Tuesday.
President Reagan learns that two American officers were killed the previous day from a land mine explosion.
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A day at home. Camp David is better on a weekend. Our Marines were to have landed in Lebanon but now it will be Tues. It is Yom Kippur so the Israelis wont be out til Tues. but they have agreed to withdraw. Yesterday we lost 2 officers in Lebanon. They were assigned to the U.N. observers. They and an Irish & Finnish officer were in a vehicle on road to Damascus—hit a land mine—all dead.
