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...invasion of Haiti is about as attractive a prospect as a rusting Pinto. Unlike our last Caribbean military adventure, Club Grenada '83, there will be actual fighting with many American deaths, and there will be a conspicuous lack of pretty medical students to run up and hug the 82nd Airborne when they "liberate" the island...
...tours in Vietnam from 1965 to 1975, hanging on to the end, as part of TIME's team covering the fall of Saigon. He later went on to head bureaus in Johannesburg, Bonn and the Caribbean, where he earned an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on the Grenada invasion. McWhirter returned to the States in 1988 as a senior business correspondent and became Detroit bureau chief in 1991. Just in time, he says, to witness the revival of Motown. "It was like watching dying patients come back to life...
...invasion of Grenada," said Simas, whose father is a University detective. "It was good training for being a Harvard officer. I learned discipline. I learned to do what you're told. I learned how to be a professional...
...hear the blather about cold war consensus, one would think that the '80s never happened. At every turn, on every issue for which there presumably was one simple, knee-jerk, anti-Soviet answer -- the MX, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, "Euromissile" deployment -- there was deep division. And practically every time, liberals, so wistful now for the easy choices of yore, made the wrong choice...
...fight for a seat at ABP is like the Grenada invasion, the battle for a table at the Coffee Connection is like D-Day. Customers wait in line for 20 minutes only to be sneered at by the trendier-than-thou "waitrons." More finicky than wine stewards, they'll wrinkle their pierced noses at you if you make an ordering faux-pas. How come they are so cocky? If I could look forward to nothing better than a lifetime of changing soggy filters, I would be the picture of despair...