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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...
...absence of independent reporting from the scene of the battle, and with little detail coming from the Pentagon, reporters did what they could; the television networks used file footage, lively electronic graphics and innumerable maps of Grenada. ABC stood its Pentagon correspondent, Jack Smith, in front of a table model of the island with a pointer to explain what the Pentagon said was happening. On Wednesday, CBS Correspondent Sandy Gilmour chartered a plane in Barbados to capture the first television pictures not supplied by the Government. He taped the naval activity around Grenada from a distance until...
Even after some reporters were given a limited tour of Grenada by military officials on Thursday, news 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...
Public opinion polls on what to do next in Lebanon or Grenada are fantasies, arising from sudden emotions of shock, grief or relief. The scholars and experts search for faults, contradicting the Government and one another in hasty judgments. The Congress is 535 shattered pieces of political authority, most of whom are frightened and bewildered, reverting to the safe ground of doubt and complaint. The presidential candidates scrutinize and wait, ready to pounce. White House aides bicker among themselves, tempers superheated, judgment clouded by fatigue. Leaks and counterleaks fill the air. The choices for action in both places...
Ronald Reagan has entered that hallowed ground. Some would suggest he got there through his own lack of understanding in Lebanon and his itchy trigger finger in Grenada. Right or wrong, he is there...