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I SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOLFING," Lanny Wiles says before he launches into what he calls "the Augusta story" in his North Carolina drawl. Thirty years ago this month -- on Oct. 22, 1983 -- Wiles was taken hostage inside the pro shop at famed Augusta National. His boss, President Ronald Reagan, was playing the 16th hole at the time, part of a high-powered foursome. The then-30-year-old Wiles, an advance man responsible for making sure presidential travel ran smoothly, was supposed to be playing in front of Reagan, but his partner, national security adviser Bud McFarlane, had been called away. (The U.S. would invade Grenada just three days later.) Wiles headed to the pro shop to buy some gifts. He was soon looking down the barrel of a gun.
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOLFING," Lanny Wiles says before he launches into what he calls "the Augusta story" in his North Carolina drawl. Thirty years ago this month -- on Oct. 22, 1983 -- Wiles was taken hostage inside the pro shop at famed Augusta National. His boss, President Ronald Reagan, was playing the 16th hole at the time, part of a high-powered foursome. The then-30-year-old Wiles, an advance man responsible for making sure presidential travel ran smoothly, was supposed to be playing in front of Reagan, but his partner, national security adviser Bud McFarlane, had been called away. (The U.S. would invade Grenada just three days later.) Wiles headed to the pro shop to buy some gifts. He was soon looking down the barrel of a gun.