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...such fighting words may belie flagging spirits. Initially. South Africa justified its offensive by citing the U.S. invasion of Grenada last October (a disingenuous comparison, if only because South Africa's control of Namibia is in direct defiance of a U.N. ruling). Then it resolved to impose a Grenadian-style ban on press coverage of the assault. As a result, said Philip Myburgh, spokesman for the opposition Progressive Federal Party, the operation was attended by "an atmosphere of secrecy and suspicion...
...fans, old and new, were in frenzy. Something about sports and politics attracts. Both are sudden-death games. Congressman Jack Kemp, the former Bills quarterback who now calls signals for the advocates of the gold standard, rates this Super Bowl just below the invasion of Grenada and above another House budget fight. He would not miss it. Columnist Carl Rowan says he might kill if he were denied a ticket. He is going in Owner Jack Kent Cooke's jetted and pampered entourage. ''Everybody has a little aggression in them," insists Rowan. "We can all get emotionally...
With America revelling in the wanton machismo of Grenada and pseudo-Keynesian recovery, the political climate is perfect for Reagan retirement...
Above all, Castro singled out the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada. Referring to the 24 Cubans who died in the invasion, Castro declared to loud applause that "the blood shed by the heroic collaborators who fell in Grenada will never be forgotten." Nor, he said, would the Cuban revolution "tremble or vacillate" should the time come to defend itself. Harking back yet again to the Santiago triumph of 1959, Castro invoked the "heroism, patriotism and revolutionary spirit" of that day to achieve the same aim: "Victory...
...talent for calling their plans and operations by the name which most effectively describes what they are not doing. We have a "peacekeeping" force in Lebanon which does nothing but keep war, a national security directive intended to reduce national comprehension, and we sent a "rescue mission" to invade Grenada. Of course these kinds of names have been used before--we have had a Secretary and Department of Defense waging war for a long time--but our present Administration has carried even this kind of misnomer to an extreme. During the past year, the Environmental Protection Agency facilitated the dropping...