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...trigger the motor-driven cameras. "We do everything that a commercial lab does," notes Orth. "We have to be able to do anything and everything the company needs." Indeed, says TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin, "the Photo Lab really comes through for us. During the U.S. invasion of Grenada last October, we received scores of rolls of film for prints and transparencies, from professionals and amateurs, and most of it late in the week. Five people worked for three days to process it and meet our deadlines...
...staff (see following story). Nonetheless, he is dedicated to his conservative principles and feels personal as well as ideological satisfaction in putting them into effect. "Here's a guy who for 25 years has been fighting the Communists with words," says one adviser. "Now he can take action. Grenada is a good example of that...
Each in his own way vividly symbolized the two contrasting views of the State of the Union. President Reagan led a standing ovation for the heroism in Grenada of Sergeant Stephen Trujillo, an Army Ranger from Denver, "who reminds us what it means to be Americans." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, moderator of the Democratic response to Reagan, cited the death in Beirut of Marine Corporal Edward Gargano from Quincy, Mass., as tragic proof that the Administration's Lebanon policy is wrongheaded...
Trujillo will soon get a silver star from the Army for repeatedly rushing into the flaming wreckage of three U.S. helicopters that had crashed during the Grenada invasion (one, hit by ground fire, had smashed into the other two). A medic, he ignored enemy shooting and the possibility of imminent explosions of the chopper fuel tanks to pull at least three comrades to safety...
...writing to protest the threat of administrative disciplinary action against two undergraduate students who were two among six hundred students who vocally protested during Caspar Weinberger's November speech (two weeks after the U.S. invasion of Grenada) at the Harvard Law School Forum. We ask: why has the administration chosen to single out two students who are members of the Spartacist Youth League (SYL), a small campus group? Do they seriously believe that these two students orchestrated and led this mass protest? We doubt it; in fact, it may be the very smallness and unpopularity of the SYL, as well...