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...Reagan campaign, far from tackling issues of real importance to students, like educational aid, problems of discrimination, and military involvement abroad, has invariably translated national problems into sports metaphors that make the U.S. invasion of Grenada seem like Bob Welch striking out Reggie Jackson in the '78 World Series and turn our Olympic success into an argument for additional billions of Pentagon spending...
...hostages for more than a year. "I'm proud to say that during these last four years not an inch of territory has been lost to the Communists," he declares. Last week he presided over a White House ceremony celebrating the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. On a swing through California, he stood in front of a production model of the B-l bomber at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale and reminded workers there that the last Administration had tried to kill the plane. Said Reagan: "Mondale has made a career out of weakening America...
Except for opening remarks delivered specifically for the Boston audience, Reagan delivered his basic stump speech, which included a celebration of the Grenada invasions, criticisms of Mondale's tax plan, and a description of how life has improved since the economic recovery...
...accused: 19 former government and army officials of Grenada. The charge: murder. Chief among their alleged victims was Maurice Bishop, the leftist Prime Minister who died, along with ten of his followers, on Oct. 19, 1983, precipitating the U.S. invasion of Grenada six days later. Prominent among the defendants are Bernard Coard, 40, and his wife Phyllis, 39. They led an extreme leftist faction within Bishop's government that allegedly sought to wrest control from the popular Marxist leader, presumably with the intention of pursuing even more radical policies after they had gained power...
...hunger strike for six weeks!" Observed the trial judge dryly: "I must say, her voice doesn't sound like an ill person's." Other defendants, when asked to enter their pleas, loudly challenged the tribunal's legitimacy, and several said they refused to be tried while Grenada was under foreign occupation. After 90 tumultuous minutes, the trial was adjourned until next week...