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...time of the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, one of the Reagan Administration's strongest Caribbean backers was Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados. Among Washington's strongest re- gional critics was Adams' chief opponent, former Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Since then, Adams has died and been replaced by Bernard St. John, but the U.S.'s Caribbean policy has remained a controversial subject on the island...
...this latest, most spectacular and most controversial military clash in the Reagan era. In 1981 the U.S. Navy made quick work of Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra, and late last month the U.S. bloodied those waters again. There were also the 1983 invasion of Grenada and last year's interception of an Egyptian airliner with the Achille Lauro hijackers aboard...
...part, the urge to hit back is driven by the new assertiveness of Reagan's foreign policy. The Administration takes pride in having put muscle into American policy; a series of successes from Grenada to the Philippines has shown that the U.S. can pull off military and diplomatic coups without risking nuclear holocaust. The spread of terrorism is the great, galling exception to this assertiveness; the U.S. too often has seemed impotent in preventing or avenging the deaths of its citizens. The Administration is eager to prove that the military power it has built at enormous expense has uses...
...truly saddens me that during the past five years, we have collectively witnessed this "great communicator" utilize (and exploit) media technology to his advantage and to the nation's spiritual and ethical demise. Lebanon, Grenada, Nicaragua, favorable tax status to racist schools like Bob Jones University and a benign neglect for those social, medical and cultural programs which serve as the benchmark of a just, compassionate and enlightened society come to mind when I read of President Reagan's refusal to speak at the Harvard festivities. It is ironic that Charles, the Prince of Wales, should be appearing at this...
...find a pretext for sailing the Sixth Fleet into harm's way. But assuring free passage in international waters had only a little more to do with the actual reasons for sending ships across Gaddafi's line of death than rescuing American medical students did with invading Grenada in 1983; as pretexts go, it was about on a par with citing arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador in order to aid the contras in Nicaragua. Scoffed Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "There is always some fig leaf being used...