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...after a pair of Navy F-14s blasted two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra, the jolt of home-team pride was strong, and the taking of tiny Grenada last year prompted more V-G-day celebrating than seemed strictly appropriate. Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy, despite the antagonisms it sometimes stirred, was a salutary symbol of black progress. The Democrats' historic nomination of a woman for Vice President added to the political selfesteem. The high spirits surrounding the Olympic Games struck some observers as jingoistic and ungracious. But with American athletes winning nearly everything in sight...
...friend Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada was chosen once again to place Reagan's name in nomination. In so doing, he praised the President's brand of leadership as "guts with reason," citing as an example his decision to send U.S. troops to the Caribbean island of Grenada. Said Laxalt: "He made the tough call. If he hadn't, Grenada today might well be in the Soviet orbit." The Nevada Senator was sharply effective in his attacks on the Democratic Party, which he said "is now the home of special interests, the social-welfare complex, the antidefense...
...midst of the furor over the exclusion of American reporters from the military operation in Grenada last fall, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed a 14-member panel to draft guidelines for press access to future combat situations. Chaired by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, the commission consisted of journalists and military public information officers. Last week Weinberger released their report and announced that the proposed guidelines are being put into effect. He also said he will appoint a permanent panel of journalists to assist in planning for news coverage of future military conflicts. Said he: "By forming such...
Chief among the Sidle commission's concerns was preserving the right of the press to cover combat "to the maximum degree possible consistent with mission security and the safety of U.S. forces." When reporters were barred from Grenada, the Pentagon argued that protecting lives, including those of the correspondents, was more important than keeping the American public fully in formed. Journalists protested that they had taken risks along with troops ever since the Civil War and had respected news embargoes when necessary to protect the secrecy of military plans and the lives of U.S. service men. "No commander...
Many details are yet to be hammered out. Perhaps the principal accomplishment of the Sidle commission was simply to get the Pentagon and the press talking again. "I think there is a general recognition that things should have been done differently in Grenada," concluded longtime Associated Press Pentagon Correspondent Fred Hoffman. Said John MacLean, Washington news editor for the Chicago Tribune: "It's good that they sat down and had both military and press people express their feelings. It remains to be seen how it works out in practice." The commission's report summed up the situation...