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...convinced that soon we will be called on to pay the price of our freedom that Grenada had to pay." Hooker said in reference to the 1983 U.S. invasion of that tiny island nation...
...Administration announced last week that the 250 U.S. troops remaining in Grenada will begin a five-month withdrawal plan in mid-April. At the same time, more than 400 troops from other Caribbean nations who are stationed in Grenada will begin a gradual evacuation, leaving the security of the tiny island completely in the hands of its own 560-member police force. Meanwhile, the military had another Grenada revelation last week: five Army men and three Marines had broken the law by returning from the Caribbean island with Soviet- made automatic rifles obtained during the invasion in 1983. Most...
...perceived bellicosity, Weinberger has proved remarkably cautious in the actual deployment of force. He supported the surprise U.S. strike in Grenada, but opposed sending Marines to act as peacekeeping forces in Lebanon on the grounds that their mission was untenable...
...past year saw as well the emergence of many facts contradicting administration accounts of why we invaded Grenada. As the Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Kwitny put it, while "Reagan continued to argue that Grenada wanted its new airport only to serve as a Soviet military base...it is hard to understand how, if the Soviets really thought a Grenadan air facility was important, they could not have built even one runway on Grenada in less than three years." The reason we came out smelling like a rose is that we overthrew a different government than...
...Central America, markets and private holdings are at stake. Grenada, on the other hand, can be seen as a set-up for image-raising. It domestic affairs as in foreign policy, one of the most disturbing Orwellian parallels is the near fusion of government and media. Both have the same basic goal--to keep things as they are, in the hands of the wealthy...