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Looking At Life Soccer Buffs Marine Marathon Navy optometrist Youth soccer teams World runners examines eyes end season warm up for for 20/20 vision with varying success annual race See Page A-4 See Page B-1 See Page B-2 HAWAII MARINE VolunIan pmmeni for deli. ers to MCAS housing /$I per four -week period. VOL. 12 NO. 35 KANEOHE HAY. HAWAII. AUG. 31, 1983 TWENTY PAGES News in brief Marines killed in Beirut No constitutional violations Two U.S Marines were killed and 14 others injured in fighting that broke out in Lebanon. According to a story in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, fighting broke out Sunday as militiamen battled the Lebanese army and deemed legal shelled a joint Urinalysis Marine-Lebanese checkpoint east of the city. There were no Marine casualties Sunday, but Marines returned fire in the The the use of extraordinary writs. prosecuting him for alleged use of action since September. EDITOR'S NOTE: wrongful use of marijuana after a first battle their arrival last following article is being used Others said the decision, though marijuana while on extended urine sample he was ordered to I n"Monday's attack, the Marines were killed and wounded during with the permission of Navy favorable for them from the leave between assignments. All provide, when he reported to a new mortar fire from the pro-Iranian Shiite forces, according to the Times. standpoint of upholding the three CMA judges concurred in training assignment, showed a article. The mortar shells landed on the Marine positions near the urinalysis programs, has thrown result although Judge Albert international airport south of Beirut. by Tom Philpott the trace of tetrahydrocannabino the issue of service- connected drug B. Fletcher Jr. withheld judgment (THC), a chemical residue which Marine artillery fire, mortars and Cobra gunships returned fire WASHINGTON, D.C. - The into disarray. "substantive issues" in the and silenced three artillery and several pockets Appeals has offenses on the tends to show that a person positions of Court of Military With the July 25 decision, CMA resistance. the green light case. recently ingested or inhaled given the services denied a Navy enlisted man's The case involved Boatswain's marijuana. "My first thought was to hit the deck," said Marine Corporal to continue compulsory urinalysis an extraordinary writ Class Victor Ross identify, prosecute request for Mate Second John R. Garchinsky, 23, of Boomall. Pa. "I was going toward the programs to to prohibit the service from Murray. He was charged with bunker and didn't quite make it," the article quoted him as saying. and separate drug and marijuana Con't on Page A-8 Garchinsky was reportedly hit in the lower hack with sharpnel. users. Earlier this year, the first Marine to die in Lebanon was killed The military's highest tribunal when he stepped on a land mine. Nine others had been wounded. ruled in Murray v. Haldeman that Monday's casualties were the second and third Marines killed since random urinalysis does not the United States entered in a multinational peacekeeping force violate a member's constitutional and brought the wounded count to 23. protections against unreasonable searches or self incrimination. Enroll now in 'DEERS' But in the same case, the court Enrollment in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting indicated that a positive system has been slow, according to Master Sergeant David MoKee,,. urinalysis test, by itself, may be station adjutant's office. .4:f** insufficient evidence to prosecute "Since July 18 we've only had 150 valid new enrollments," a member for using drugs far said. "That breaks down to about six people a day, while we were away from a military installation expecting at least 30 people a day. We need sponsors to check their while on an extended period of service record book to ensure their dependents are enrolled in leave. The court suggested that DEERS. I think a lot of people don't realize how important the the government not only must program is. show that the member used the DEERS is a new way of confirming who is entitled to health care illegal substance but that he was at military Public Health Hospitals and clinics. It also determines suffering some physiological or eligibility for patronizing exchanges and commissaries. psychological effects from the Beginning Oct. 1, military hospitals and direct care facilities will drugs when he reports back for begin denying routine medical care using the same system. duty. Emergency treatment will be given to anyone, but if they are later How difficult a process this will found to be ineligible for military health care benefits, they will bof be for the government is unclear at billed. this point. Active duty people are autornaticaly -enrolled in the system, Some legal experts, both inside according to McKee. HeadqUarterS Marine Corps Will take care of and outside of the Pentagon, took enrolling retirees by sending enrollment packages to everyone who exception to the way the court receives a retirement check. decided the constitutional "Sponsors of dependents must enroll all eligible dependents . questions in this case. Some RANDOM TESTS - Staff Sergeant Ricky in a security container. The Court of Military regardless of age," said McKee. o0 as charged CMA with contradicting Mayorga, urinalysis coordinator, Head- Appeals recently upheld random urinalysis earlier guidance it had issued on quarters Squadron, places a bottled specimen testing. (Photo by Cpl Pat Lewandowski) Wary leathernecks mark troubled year in Lebanon What prompted the initial when U.S. Marine and Navy by SSgt Bill Wright evacuation of the PLO fighters forces were used to help evacuate BEIRUY, Lebanon - One year and the return of the multina- Americans during June 1975 ago this month, the United States tional peacekeeping forces following the kidnapping and was again called upon to help a necessitates a basic understand- killing of U.S. Ambassador beleagured country. This time, as ing of the Lebanese culture, plus Francis Meloy. Lebanon's civil in July 1958, the Middle East the conflict and political strife war ended, officially, on Nov. 15, country of Lebanon was on the that have gripped this country for 1976, when an 8,000-man Arab line seeking military assistance. years. peacekeeping force entered Beirut. The U.S. government again sent Bordered on the north and east During the next six years, in the Navy/Marine Corps team. by Syria and on the south by Lebanon experienced little calm They were ready. Israel, Lebanon encompasses and was destined to be the "You are about to embark on a more than 3,000,000 people in an battleground of renewed fighting. mission of great importance to our area of approximately 4,000 On June 6, 1982, Israel launched a nation and the free world. .You square miles. One of the most massive attack on Palestinian are tasked to be once again what distinctive features of Lebanon is fighters entrenched in civilian Marines have been for more than its number of religious sects - Lebanese villages. These actions 200 years - peacemakers. about 17. Today, the most prompted the Lebanese govern- expect that you will perform with prominent religious communities ment to seek help. Following the traditional esprit and are the maronite (Christian), plus skillful negotiations by United discipline for which the Marine Shiite Moslem, Sunni Moslem and States Special Envoy Philip Corps is renowned. Godspeed." Druze. Habib, a withdrawl agreement With those words from In 1944, Lebanon achieved was reached and the multina- President Ronald Reagan, an 800 - complete independence with the tional peacekeeping forces were man contingent of the 23d Marine signing of the national covenant, born. Amphibious Unit from Camp a "gentleman's agreement" The volatile situation which has LeJeune, N.C., commanded by between Christian and Moslem engulfed the Middle East region Colonel James Mead (now a leaders. The agreement became an was magnified shortly after the brigadier general), landed at the unwritten part of the Lebanese departure of the 32d MAU. On port of Beirut on Aug. 25, 1982. Its constitution and worked Sept. 14, 1982, only 22 days after mission - to assist in the safe and relatively well for a limited period his election, Lebanon's President- orderly evacuation of thousands of time. By 1958, Lebanon's elect Beshir Gemsyel was killed in of Palestine Liberation Organiza- religious and political internal an explosion. The next day, the tion fighters from this war - rivalries fractured the delicate Israeli Army invaded West Beirut, ravaged Mediterranean coastal balance. An uneasy peace was and then on Thursday, Sept. 16, city. The Marines were aided in restored with the aid of the more than 300 Palestinian their efforts by approximately 800 Marines, but the Moslem- refugees were massacred in camps Italian and 400 French personnel. Christian split was pronounced. Sabra and Chatilla in central For the next 17 days, the After the six-day war between Beirut. Marines, along with their French the Arab States and Israel in 1967, President Reagan immediately and Italian counterparts, oversaw Lebanon was drawn into the ordered the 32d MAU and the the departure of more than 6,000 palestinian Arab struggle. Amphibious Task Force back to PLO fighters. On Sept. 10, Coupled with its unresolved Beirut to spearhead a reconsti- following what General Robert H. internal conflicts and the tuted MNF. Their mission this Barow, then Commandant of the palestinians' hope of establishing time - "To land and secure Marine Corps, called a "most a homeland, Lebanori drifted positions near Beirut Interna- difficult, sensitive and delicate rapidly toward the brink of civil tional Airport: to maintain a mission," Mediterranean war. Beginning in April 1975, the presence in support of the deployment.