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Reported by Bernard Diederich and Tom Quinn/Bogot...
...ByAlessandraStanley. Reported by Bernard Diederich and Dick Thompson/St. George...
Since 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...
Despite this news blockade, six reporters and one photographer, including TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, had managed to get to Grenada in a small fishing boat as the invasion was starting. On Day 2 of the invasion, having learned that telex and telephone lines had been knocked out in the fighting, four of the reporters-Don Bohning of the Miami Herald, Edward Cody of the Washington Post, Morris Thompson of Newsday and Greg Chamberlain of Britain's Guardian-accepted a U.S. military offer to be airlifted to the U.S.S. Guam, a helicopter carrier, in the belief that they could file...
...executives felt that they had got only what one of those reporters, ABC Correspondent Richard Threlkeld, called "a worm's-eye view, just a little segment of what was going on." Journalists who attempted to reach the island on their own by private boat, as TIME's Diederich and his companions had done earlier, were run off by U.S. destroyers and other naval vessels...