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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1981
National
Second Iran hostage mission training had started
Carter was prepared to make a large military attac
United Press International
ATLANTA — After the aborted
attempt to free the hostages in
Iran failed and eight Americans
were killed, former President Jim
my Carter ordered a larger and
more powerful military operation
to try again, it was reported
Sunday.
Free-lance writer Richard T.
Sale, in a copyright story printed
in the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, quoted unnamed
sources a saying secret military re
hearsals for a second mission took
place in the deserts of Utah, Cali
fornia, Texas and New Mexico
while other units practiced at Fort
Bragg, N.C., Fort Benning, Ga.,
and the Special Operations Wing
at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
The White House at the time
denied reports by syndicated col
umnist Jack Anderson that Carter
had a second plan to “invade
Iran,” and several major newspap
ers refused to publish the Ander
son story.
U.S. forces, however, already
were in position in Egypt and
Israel and the countries from
which the second mission was to
have been staged. Sale said
sources told him.
The unidentified sources also
said there was a clear push to use
military force against Iran until
Sept. 12, 1980, when Ayatollah
Khomeini announced that Iran
was willing to release the hos
tages.
“Carter was implementing a
contingency plan,’ a source said.
The plan was described as one of
“major scale” that would have in
volved as many as 100 U.S. heli
copters, units of elite forces, a
large number of combat aircraft
and as many as 10,000 ground
troops.
Under the reported plan, the
82nd Airborne Division was to
make an air drop and seize the
Mehrabad airport at Tehran. F-
15s or F-14s, A-lOsand other com
bat aircraft were to be used, with
the latter acting as an “air cap”
operation to screen the paratroop
ers on the ground as well as to
strike all major airbases in Iran.
other locations in Iran to free the
scattered hostages. It would have
included 1,800 Marines who
would have attacked the main spi
got of Iranian oil on the Persian
Gulf, Kharg Island.
U.S. officials reportedly ad*
ted that the CIA and other age
cies knew of the impending Ir<
The plan also called for ele
ments of the “Delta Unit” and
other top commando groups to ar
rive at various sites in Tehran and
By April 1980, U.S. policy was
pursuing two parallel lines — re
lying on the impending Iraq-Iran
conflict as a means of pressuring
Iran for concessions while at the
same time developing a U.S.
military strike, the article said.
invasion of Iran as early as Feint TT/I
ary 1980. | ffI.
By early summer, the souk?
said, rehearsals began at Fn
Bliss, Texas; the Ford-IrwinNi
tional Training Center at Bants ,ea ™ a )ou
Calif.; the U.S. Marine J Notsnov
Ground Combat Center at TweP an rom 1
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WASHINGTON — White
House press secretary Jim Brady,
known for his wit and tenacity, is
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removal of a portion of his brain.
Doctors Sunday said he “con
tinues to make satisfactory prog
ress,” and Brady’s own words,
spiced with vigor and humor, have
given his friends and family re
newed hope about his overall
chances.
The severity of his wound and
the decision to remove a part of his
brain damaged in the assassination
attempt on President Reagan last
week, have spread fears that
Brady’s chances of escaping brain
damage were minimal.
But for the past few days, he has
kept up a steady stream of one-
liners that indicate “the Bear” —
his nickname — is improving
quicker than anyone had hoped.
Take Saturday. Brady, whose
face is still heavily bandaged and
swollen from the wound and sub
sequent GVz-hour operation, was
attempting to open his eyes as his
surgeon, Dr. Arthur Kobrine
stood watching nearby.
Kobrine has been asking Brady
some questions about his job to
mber is
Brady referred to his injuries, teRouble hm
ing his wife, “The Bear’was cel I guess 11
tainly in the wrong place tk >tter supp
time.” ben thing
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Saturday night, he spoke with
gauge the extent of the damage.
Some of the questions are
elementary, and Brady apparently
realized that.
When Kobrine asked him why
he was trying to open his eyes, he
received a vintage Bradyism in re
sponse; “To see who is the doctor
his wife Sarah — whom doctors
say Brady “clearly recognizes”
now “both by sound and vision. ”
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Board member and now a P#
sylvania miner, said Brown®
Church were roadblocks to f
ting an acceptable contract tl
would resolve fears of the cur?
strike going longer than the Ilf.
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