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Funding, reagan believed that it was his obligation, a moral obligation, as well as an obligation to american security, to make sure that the contras continued to get funding. >> the last of the u.s. marines left beirut today, sending a 17-month peacekeeping mission, which brought lebanon no closer to resolving its strife. >> after a series of several bombings, the impact was short lived. so these groups in lebanon began nabbing americans. >> in beirut today, the united states was the target of lebanon shadowy men with guns, kidnapping american william buckley, the embassy's contact man for th...

Nicaragua. >> when congress tried to cut american funding off for the contras, reagan believed it was his obligation, a moral obligation as well as an obligation to american security, to make sure the contras continued to get funding. >> the last of the u.s. marines left beirut today for the relative safety of the 6th fleet warships offshore ending a 17-month peace keeping mission which brought lebanon no closer to resolving its internal strife. >> after a series of bombing of american targets lebanese factions realized their impact was very short-lived. so these groups in lebanon began nabbin...

>> lebanese factions realized their impact was very short lived. so these groups in lebanon began nabbing americans. >> in beirut, the united states was again the target of lebanon's shadowy men. they kidnapped william buckley. he's the embassy's contact man for the rival christian and muslim factions. he is the third american to be kidnapped in beirut in six weeks. >> and it kept happening. it was not all at one go. they were taken many months apart but kept adding up and adding up. it consumed the reagan presidency. >> every day, almost every day he'd ask his national security teams, intelli...

Lebanon's shadowy men. they kidnapped william buckley. he's the embassy's contact man for the rival christian and muslim factions. he is the third american to be kidnapped in beirut in six weeks. >> and it kept happening. it was not all at one go. they were taken many months apart but kept adding up and adding up. it consumed the reagan presidency. >> every day, almost every day he'd ask his national security teams, intelligence briefers, any news on the hostages. is anything happening? is there something we can do? >> there's a chink in reagan's armor. he was soft-hearted and felt a sense of ...

Against u.s. targets, lebanese factions realized that their impact was very short-lived. so these groups in lebanon began nabbing americans. >> in beirut, the united states was again the target of lebanon's shadowy men. they kidnapped william buckley. he's the embassy's contact man for the rival christian and muslim factions. he is the third american to be kidnapped in beirut in six weeks. >> and it kept happening. it was not all at one go. they were taken many months apart but kept adding up and adding up. it consumed the reagan presidency. >> every day, almost every day he'd ask his national...