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...comments. "He can only persuade," But when opinion is the bound of his powers, he can still deceive. When another President contends our troops in Lebanon are at peace, so he can avoid the restraints of the War Powers Act; when he alludes to vague security threats in Grenada, but bars reporters and obstructs the public's critical vision of threat; when he distorts details and invents rationalizations for his policies, what effect can a firestorm have...
...usually devote to the cover story, or when a concatenation of news creates in effect more than one cover story. Both conditions applied last week as the U.S. military continued to take the toll of its losses in Lebanon and spearheaded an invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada. To meet the challenge of covering and explaining these stories half a world apart, the editors devised a special section that, at 31 pages, is the equivalent of four normal cover stories. It reflects the efforts of 34 New York-based editors, writers and reporter-researchers, plus dozens of correspondents...
...those correspondents and one of those photographers were positioned to give U.S. readers a unique and extraordinary view of the Grenada invasion from start to finish. Sensing that the invasion was imminent, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich and Photographer Claude Urraca joined five other journalists in persuading a fishing-boat captain to ferry them to Grenada. They arrived in the capital, St. George's, well before the invading forces reached it. Diederich's exclusive report of the U.S. assault as viewed from behind the defenders' lines, with Urraca's pictures, is part of the special section...
...Grenada tourist brochure...
...first, the North American visitors ignored the uncompleted airstrip, but they certainly took advantage of one of Grenada's many scenic beaches. A group of U.S. Navy Seals, trained in special seaborne operations, slipped silently ashore under the cover of darkness. Weapons in hand, they crept up the hill overlooking the quaint 18th century city of St. George's. They rushed toward Government House, where Sir Paul Scoon, the island's British-appointed Governor-General, had been held under virtual house arrest by Grenada's revolutionary Marxist military leaders. Driven back at first by gunfire from...