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...only a small handful of journalists, including TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, had managed to get onto Grenada as the Marines landed, the vacuum caused by the censorship was quickly filled by amateurs telling their stories over ham radios to eager ears in the U.S. Notable among these was Mark Barettella, 22, of Ridgefield, N.J., a student at St. George's University medical school. While U.S. military communiques were reporting relatively light resistance, Barettella throughout the first two days of the operation broadcast vivid accounts of combat around his room at the school; he included descriptions of heavy firing...
...piercing a pillow. John Kopycinski, an assistant to the school chancellor, banged on the doors of students' rooms and told them to block their windows with mattresses against the possibility of shattering glass. He ordered them to draw their shades and not leave their rooms. Student Mark Barettella of Ridgefield, N.J., flipped on a ham radio transceiver in his room and aired the first personal account of what was happening. "Right now we can't move," he said. "I'm on the floor. The microphone is on the floor...
Students at the Grand Anse campus still had seen no Marines. Barettella's amateur radio station, virtually the sole source of specific action reports for more than 30 hours, reached the school's chancellor, Charles Modica, in New York. Modica had been highly critical of the invasion, contending that his students had not been in danger before it began. He had urged students to remain in school, saying they could not expect a refund of their $6,000 annual tuition if they left. Now his assistant, Kopycinski, took the microphone in Grenada and pleaded, "Our water supply...
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