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...Defense Department announced on Wednesday that "hostilities have ceased." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger then ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces to begin. By week's end the invasion force of 6,000 paratroopers, Army Rangers and Marines had dwindled to about 2,500 men of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., and up to 500 support personnel. The 400 soldiers contributed by Grenada's neighboring island nations (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent) took up routine police duties, patrolling harbors and checkpoints. A task force of six Navy ships, headed...
With some 1,900 U.S. troops now on Grenada, the Pentagon ordered two battalions of reinforcements from the 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort Bragg, N.C. That brought the invasion force to 3,000. Conceded Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Vessey: "We got a lot more resistance than we expected...
...court trials and Supreme Court decisions. By these constitutional processes, he was forced to resign. The system, it was said, worked. In his memoirs, Henry Kissinger added a bizarre footnote. Nixon's chief deputy, Al Haig, once warned Kissinger that "it may be necessary to put in the 82nd Airborne Division around the White House" to protect the President should he seek to stay in power. Even the belated report of this calamitous possibility created little stir. Whatever other nations might do in crisis, it seemed inconceivable to Americans that troops could be called out to protect...
...most persistent conservative was Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, a chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. As the antinuclear wave rolled on, Hannan lectured his fellow bishops: "I don't think you know what you're talking about at all, not having been in war. You're just inviting the enemy in if you withdraw those nuclear weapons we have...
...indeed charming. Snuggled twixt the Princess, 21, and the Prince, 33, bright-eyed William Arthur Philip Louis appeared somewhat perplexed by his photo debut. But "Sweet William," as the London press has dubbed him, will probably get used to such attention. This week on another important family occasion, the 82nd birthday of his great-grandmum, the Queen Mother, the little Prince will have his christening at Buckingham Palace. But unlike many an event in his busy life to come, it will not be televised...