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...part, Uncle Reagan reveled in the adulation from the singing, bouquet-waving crowds. The President had come to Grenada for a 5-hour visit last week to commemorate the U.S. invasion that swept away the country's ultra-Marxist "revolutionary council" in October 1983. "I couldn't feel closer to anyone at this moment than I do to you," he told the cheering islanders who had been given a national holiday by the government of Prime Minister Herbert Blaize to jam the dusty cricket field at Queen's Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Grenada, Apocalypso Now | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...handful of Americans died in our invasion, or "liberation," of Grenada. President Reagan told America that our soldiers were heroes, protecting the lives of Americans, at home and abroad, against the "domino effect...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Heroes and Real People | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...1960s and 1970s, over 50,000 American soldiers were killed in Vietnam, fighting for their country. Their children receive the same Veterans and Social Security benefits as the children of the Americans killed in Grenada and Lebanon--and on the Challenger...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Heroes and Real People | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

Reagan's foreign policy, crowned by the oh-so-titanic invasion of Grenada, has shown that behind the proud talk of freedom fighters and strong anti-communism lies a foreign policy that fails to follow through even on the most basic promises of its rhetoric...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Opportunity Knocks for Dems | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

...member U.S. force invaded Grenada and removed a military junta that had seized power six days earlier. Reagan described it as a rescue mission for about 600 American students at St. George's University Medical School campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Hailed as Hero in Grenada | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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