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That confrontation was immensely more ominous than the Grenada conflict. It raised the threat of nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But the sometimes indistinct tapes and the voices of officials uh-ing and uhm-ing as they thought fast, on the spot, point a lesson for government planners facing any unexpected trouble. George Ball, who participated in the meetings as Under Secretary of State, spelled it out in a Washington Post article published just before the release of the tapes. "Had we fixed on a response within the first 48 hours," Ball wrote, "we would almost...
...scarcely any surprise that the violence in Grenada angered Desi Bouterse, the paranoid dictator of Suriname (pop. 350,000), about 600 miles away on the coast of South America. What raised eyebrows was that Bouterse, a self-styled Marxist, directed his wrath not against the U.S. but against his ally Cuba. Last week he abruptly expelled Havana's Ambassador, giving him six days to get out of the country, and suspended all Cuban cultural and education agreements. Bouterse's explanation: "The leadership of the Suriname revolution is convinced that a repetition of developments in Grenada should be prevented...
...probably telling the truth. Bouterse may have feared that he would surfer the same fate as his friend Maurice Bishop, the Marxist Prime Minister of Grenada who was deposed and killed. Bouterse hinted that he suspected Cuban complicity in Bishop's overthrow. Perhaps too, Bouterse, who seems motivated primarily by a desire to maintain his repressive regime, did some political recalculating in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He may have concluded that leftist revolution is no longer the wave of the future in the Caribbean and that he should make himself less obnoxious...
...sooner had President Reagan taken to television with the announcement that the U.S. had joined forces with six small Caribbean countries to invade Grenada than the press scrambled to do its job. Within hours, the first wave of more than 300 newspaper, magazine, wire-service, radio and television journalists were arriving on the island of Barbados, which, though some 160 miles northeast of the action, was the closest they could get. But there were no pictures of the combat on television screens that night or the next night, nor any dispatches from newspaper reporters on the ground. Members...
...justification for an unprecedented news blackout instantly raised a furor. Major news organizations fired off stiff protests. The American Society of Newspaper Editors formally complained that the exclusion went "beyond the normal limits of military censorship." Two more days passed before the first handful of reporters were escorted to Grenada...