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...think we have wasted our efforts in Lebanon [WORLD, Feb. 27]. We tried to bring peace to that country, and many Lebanese were glad we were there. The Soviets, we should recall, were evicted from Egypt, Somalia and Grenada. They did not get all teary about "losing" in these areas. They looked for other opportunities. The U.S. should learn to do the same...
...faculty register reveals that leftist academics by no means saturate the University. For every "unremitting pacifist" and "self-avowed Marxist" that the conservatives name they fail to mention the Government professors who, in the recent past, have gone on record as opposing affirmative action, supporting the invasion of Grenada, and maintaining that authoritarian regimes may be the most suited for the tasks of Third World development. Perhaps the leaflet should also have stated that the Economics department carries only two Marxists, who themselves once had good reason to fear that their convictions would jeopardize their chances for tenure...
...year-old General also proposed that the Army adopt smaller, more moveable divisions of about 10,000 men, instead of the standard 18,000 "As a result of the lessons of Grenada, it is clear that we need lighter forces in terms of deployment," Wickham said...
...army decided to use a 10,000 soldier division in the successful Grenada invasion last September, a move that Army spokesman Lt. Col. F. William Smullen said in a telephone interview "is the wave of the future. You don't need major aircraft or slops and you can fight more effectively, such as in Grenada...
...subject that elicited a strong emotional response in 1983 was the press itself. TIME readers expressed support for the military's decision to bar press coverage of the Grenada invasion. And of the 965 readers who commented...