Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect more than one cover story. Both conditions applied last week as the U.S. military continued to take the toll of its losses in Lebanon and spearheaded an invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada. To meet the challenge of covering and explaining these stories half a world apart, the editors devised a special section that, at 31 pages, is the equivalent of four normal cover stories. It reflects the efforts of 34 New York-based editors, writers and reporter-researchers, plus dozens of correspondents and photographers in Lebanon, the Caribbean and round the world...
Throughout the week, the site of those sacrifices was slowly, even tenderly, pulled apart in the search for bodies. As bulldozers grumbled back and forth, cranes hoisted away slabs of concrete, their steel rods bent crazily and stuck with bits of uniforms. The Marines were aided in their grim task not only by Navy Seabees from ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast, but by Italian, Norwegian and Lebanese rescuers, most of them volunteers. The searchers clambered over the ruins with picks and shovels, but just as often they would fall to their knees and scoop...
...events in Lebanon and Grenada, though oceans apart, are closely related," President Reagan maintained in the summation of his televised address. Moscow, he said, "assisted and encouraged the violence in both countries." As a consequence, the U.S. must become less reticent about asserting itself in the world. As Reagan noted, "We are not somewhere else in the world protecting someone else's interests. We are there protecting...
...Grenada. Without contacting any members of the Organization of American States, much less NATO or the United Nations, the president marched into Grenada on the advice of his closest advisors and the few members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) that seem to have contacted him. Apart from arousing our natural disgust, this kind of secrecy severely undercuts our standing with our European allies at just the moment when we need their trust most. Even Margaret Thatcher, Reagan's staunchest European ally, was not informed of the attack until Monday and was summarily rebuffed when she tried...
...instant communications and same-day TV coverage, it is easy to forget that Grenada and Lebanon are thousands of miles apart. Few would disagree that the U.S. is "a global power"; the forgotten implication is that an American presence near each country requires an enormous amount of logistical support. In short, each region has "tied down" significant fractions of America's combat-ready forces. Even apart from any consideration of right or wrong, then, the Administration must ask itself-are these actions worth it? Are they high enough on our scale of priorities to merit such involvement? And, should...