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MARRIED. William Colby, 64, often embattled director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Nixon and Ford; and Sally Shelton, 40, former U.S. envoy to the West Indian islands of Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent; both for the second time; in a ceremony performed by the mayor of Venice, Italy...
...month's ago many of Reagan's gloomier detractors warned that if Reagan were re-elected, Bob Hope would be entertaining our boys in Managua by Christmas. However, even the Reagan administration probably knows better than to seriously consider a Grenada style invasion in Nicaragua. The problem is not that we are on the verge of a Latin American Vietnam, but rather that our own administration seems determined to repeat some of history's mistakes...
President Reagan has inflation down from 13% to 4%. He reduced interest rates from 21% to 13%. He snatched Grenada from the jaws of the Communists. Yes, this Democrat will vote for Reagan. Nelson C. Singer Lexington...
Reagan radiated the politics of optimism, attaching himself to the flag, bal loons and the Olympics (the summer's one really popular event). He deplored criticism of his policies as negativism. That included the press as well: in matters serious (the invasion of Grenada) and trivial, the Reagan Administration had effectively excluded the press. The President stopped holding press conferences that might embarrass him; so did George Bush. But outcries from the press against such high-handedness were muted by the discovery that the public seemed not much concerned. It is this constant sensitivity to public reactions- endemic...
...first anniversary of liberation came and went with only quiet fanfare on Grenada. In the dining room of the Grenada Beach Hotel, home for most of the 240 U.S. soldiers and military policemen still on the island, Rear Admiral Ralph Hedges, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, paid tribute to the 19 servicemen who died in last year's momentous rescue mission. In the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, some 450 local citizens and dignitaries heard Father Cyril Lamontagne of St. Lucia thank the Lord, who, he said, "stretched forth his mighty hand to bring...