Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree that the American forces have already gone too far; even if the students were in real danger, the operation should have been limited to pulling them out. The continuation of military action is a heinous and unjustified waste of lives-of both American servicemen and others...
Healy described the potential danger of high trihalomethane counts as "much ado about nothing--or almost nothing...
Cohen: I think there are a number of justifications. I think that everybody scoffed at the idea that the medical students were in danger. But they did feel in considerable danger. Three students came back saying things like. "It wasn't an invasion. It was a rescue. "That's one justification. I think it's plain that most students felt themselves under serious threat. There was a 24-hour curfew, orders to shoot to kill, a government that just murdered a number of people in cold blood, they felt that that was enough of a justification. I think another justification...
...evening of the 20th, contingency plans began in the Pentagon for the possible use of force in the area. An urgent call came the next day from Prime Minister Adams of Barbados, the government, adding the plea to intelligence information from the island that the Americans might be in danger, interpreted it as a call for action. With American ships, holding what were called reinforcements for Lebanon, steaming toward the area, Prime Minister Adams called other members of the OECS to persuade them to sanction the invasion. On the morning of the 22nd, the President gave the go-ahead while...
...time invasion went to press, the administration had a strong arsenal of reasons under its belt: the danger to American citizens and the formal request for aid. When the forces arrived in Grenada, and turned up several hundred Cubans and 30 Soviet military advisors, it was dubbed a lucky break and officials declared that the size of the Cuban presence, earlier referred to in an offhand manner, came as surprise. One can only remember, with a certain strong sense of embarrassment, the statement by the Russians that they were "invited in" to Afghanistan and Poland...