Word: grenada
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...have never seen any group so bitter and hostile as the television newscasters who were denied the right, which they consider constitutional and God-given, to cover the Grenada invasion. These are the same individuals who trampled the rights and privacy of others by engaging in the unbelievably tasteless pursuit of families awaiting news of loved ones in the Beirut suicide bombing. The press serves a valuable function, but it has built too lofty a pedestal on which to display...
...free press is absolutely essential, but the flap over Grenada shows that spoiled brats represent...
...week's end a total of about 1,800 men had vacated the island, fulfilling Reagan's promise that all combat troops would be out of Grenada before Christmas. Still on hand are 150 military police and 150 U.S. support troops (logistics, medical and administrative personnel) to train Grenadian security forces. This modest detachment, along with the 396-member Caribbean Peace-Keeping Force, may well provide a necessary sense of order. "People are so scared, so insecure because of how unsettled things are," says Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General who languished in prison for 2½ years...
Equally precarious is the fledgling government of Sir Paul Scoon, the island's Governor-General. Two weeks ago, Antony Rushford, a Briton who was appointed by the Commonwealth to be Scoon's legal adviser, abruptly left Grenada after attacking the Governor-General as "quite unfit" to help restore democracy to the island. The leaders of Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer the country until elections can be held, admit that they may be dangerously out of touch with some of their poorer countrymen who benefited from Bishop's rule. "The revolution...
...invasion of Grenada had a cathartic effect on a public frustrated by the post-Viet Nam feeling of military impotence. By 58% to 32%, those polled said the invasion was in the best interests of the nation. Fully 64% of those who favored the action cited as the reason for their approval the simple feeling that it was "important for the nation to assert itself...