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...looks as if the next time the U.S. invades some place like Grenada, there will be reporters and photographers along. A panel of military officers and former journalists, headed by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, has been wrestling with the issue. All the participants seem to recognize that the Reagan Administration's two-day news blackout during the invasion last October was not healthy for the military, the press or the country...
...individuals. They were part of a protest in fundamental opposition to the policies and actions of Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and the Reagan administration--policies that have resulted in the death of 40,000 civilians in El Salvador since 1980, and in the invasion of the sovereign nation of Grenada a short time before Weinberger spoke...
...alone. Is that what the country wants to be in the end, free and alone? Too late for isolation. Yet what does the nation mean when it sails into cauldrons like Lebanon-let's fight to the death until someone gets hurt? Oh, if every beach were Grenada's. After the easy questions, the hard ones, and then a silence, as the nation sways, like its Marines, between the devil and the sea. -By Roger Rosenblatt
Hart last week tried to exploit another potential Mondale liability, accusing him of being overly cautious. He noted that Mondale had not spoken out against the Viet Nam War until 1969, took 18 days before saying anything about the Grenada invasion, and waited months before calling for the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon. Picking up on a maladroit comment by Mondale's media adviser Roy Spence that Mondale "dares to be cautious," Hart declared, "The future can only be secured with a different kind of President-who dares to be bold, not cautious." Mondale readily concedes that his slowness...
...concurrent rise of the peace movement at home. She saw public opinion changing over the past year as a result of U.S. missile deployment in Western Europe, the breakdown in U.S.-Soviet arms talks, skepticism over American policies in Central America and Lebanon, and the U.S. move into Grenada. The U.S. presidential election and uncertainty about Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's health were further reasons for her "deep concerns about relations between East and West," she observed. After four years devoted almost entirely to domestic and economic matters, Thatcher, who has been in office longer than any other leader...