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...Progress. "Ever since the invasion of the Dominican Republic, we've been trying to tell other countries that the U.S. has forsworn military intervention," says Sol Linowitz, a former U.S. Ambassador to the O.A.S. who helped negotiate the Panama Canal Treaty. By far the greatest cost of the Grenada invasion, and the new assertiveness it exemplifies, may be that it resurrects in Latin America the "Yankee imperialist" stereotype that the U.S. has been struggling to shake off. "Gringos out of Grenada," was the cry in front of the U.S. embassy in Mexico City as a cardboard Reagan was burned...
...Southern Command a month ago in Guatemala and agreed that the aims of CONDECA included "the use of force against Marxism." Edgar Chamorro, a leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the largest of the CIA-backed contra groups, predicts that the O.E.C.S.-sponsored invasion of Grenada will serve as a model for a CONDECA-sponsored U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. "The U.S. will let some time go by and then they'll do it again," he says...
...both Grenada and Nicaragua, the Administration has been somewhat disingenuous in its public
...critical moment when NATO countries are scheduled to deploy intermediate-range U.S. missiles (See box). The world has a short memory for such matters, but last week the concerns were widespread. Most offended of all was Britain, and for good reason: Grenada is part of the Commonwealth and has the Queen as its monarch. France proved to hold the key anti-American vote during the United Nations Security Council debate on the invasion. It cast its weight behind a resolution that "deeply deplores the armed intervention in Grenada, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and of the independence...
...been on the books has disputed the constitutionality of its provision that the President cannot deploy troops in combat situations for more than 60 days without the approval of Congress, and the Supreme Court has not ruled conclusively on the issue. Reagan informed Congress of the invasion of Grenada, as required by the law, but refrained from indicating compliance with the 60-day requirement. The Senate voted 64 to 20 on Friday to set the act's 60-day clock ticking. Said Democrat Gary Hart of Colorado: "We are dealing with an Administration that is not inclined to obey...