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...important intangible factor seems to be Reagan's forceful style and his image as a reassuring figure of authority. For some, that means his use of American might in the most literal sense. "In Grenada he showed he will stand up to the Soviets," says Stephen Warner, 21, a senior at California's Pitzer College. "We don't have a wishy-washy human rights foreign policy. We say what we're going to do and do it." For many others, Reagan's amiable personality is the appeal. Says Melvin Lowe, 23, a Mondale supporter...
Never mind the record. Since Vietnam, U.S. military forces have only once been successfully deployed--in Grenada in 1983. And even that resort island was deemed to have presented such a challenge that 8612 medals were awarded to the 7000 Army soldiers involved...
...analysts have claimed. "There's a different political context from the primaries," says Carter. "He's saying the same things with a different emphasis." Even so, in an interview with the New York Times last week, Mondale said that as President he would have used force in Grenada "to go in there and protect American lives," just as Reagan did last October. He did not say so at the time, Mondale explained, because he was not sure U.S. lives were at risk; he is now satisfied that Americans on the Caribbean island "were in trouble...
...actually began . . . Well, wherever the new patriotism came from, there can be no gainsaying its arrival." Then in his remarkable pastiche of a peroration, he quoted country-and-western song lyrics ("Cuz the flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away"), recalled the Grenada invasion, the Olympics and his D-day anniversary visit to Normandy and told an anecdote about how the dying Ulysses S. Grant saluted a battle-scarred Union veteran ("as Grant's wife and the doctor wept...
...inflamed again by the Iranian hostage taking. Even Americans who disapproved of the Grenada invasion were not horrified very deeply or for very long. "Some people may feel good about invading Grenada," says Hayden. "Personally, I think that's a farce combined with tragedy. By contrast, there's nothing wrong and everything right with celebrating missions into space. And I'm proud about Los Angeles' sponsoring a positive, uplifting Olympics in a city which had been perceived as being incapable of an achievement of that sort...