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...number of students who attended or the importance of the speaker. At the same time the paper has been very careful to search out and cover the smallest liberal events. For example, the Club's anti-Soviet rally (which took place a few weeks after the American invasion of Grenada) received the barest mention on the last page of the paper, even though over 150 students attended. By contrast, four weeks ago when 13 (count them, 13) pro-divestiture students sang in front of Derek Bok's office, The Crimson gave them a long front page story...
...only "watered-down" and "mushy" recommendations, in the words of Barry Goldwater, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In strategic planning, the concern of each Chief has often been to secure a piece of the action for his own service. A prime example is the 1983 invasion , of Grenada, which turned from a Navy-Marines show into an operation also involving Army Ranger battalions and Air Force transports and gunships. Their inclusion, the Pentagon's own after-battle studies show, merely sowed confusion. In budgetary planning, the JCS has rarely made hard decisions as to whether money might...
...Capitol Hill and all across the U.S. last week, there were fierce outpourings of pride at a military job well done. Indeed, not since the 1983 U.S. landing on the shores of Grenada had there been any expression of patriotic sentiment quite like it. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger harked back much further than that: he invoked "the time of the Barbary pirates" in praising the Administration's action. No one put it better than Ronald Reagan. The U.S., said the President, had "sent a message to terrorists everywhere. The message: 'You can run, but you can't hide...
...Force, for instance, is chronically unwilling to provide air cover for ground troops in the field, and the Navy is reluctant to buy ships to transport the Army. Turf battles surface most glaringly in actual combat. The invasion of Grenada in 1983 was a walk-over, said Senator Nunn, but only because the defenders were few and poorly armed. Coordination among the services was abysmal. Nunn cited the case of one Army officer who, unable to reach the Navy because of incompatible communication systems, had to use his AT&T credit card to phone his office in North Carolina...
...still have electricity; sections of the city were without power. A station in Bogota, Colombia, was able to monitor the Mexican channel's transmissions via satellite, and relayed the highlights to the outside world. International telephone and telex circuits were down and, as during the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, the first on-the-spot accounts came from amateur radio operators. Using battery-powered equipment, a handful of Mexico City hams described the devastation to their counterparts in the U.S. The American operators, in turn, were able to help some of the thousands of U.S. citizens and residents with...