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Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, for barring reporters from the Grenada invasion...
Seven weeks after U.S. Navy Seals slipped silently onto Grenada's beaches, starting an invasion that led to the overthrow of the island's unstable Marxist regime, the last U.S combat troops were headed home. On the airstrip at Point Salines, still unfinished, the first ranks of approximately 1,000 paratroopers let out a whoop of welcome as three giant C-141 transport planes, mottled in camouflage colors, hummed into view...
...capital of St. George's was a large hand-lettered sign, erected next to an American flag, that summed up the troops' warm feelings toward the island's 110,000 population, many of whom had played host to servicemen in their homes: FARE WELL, GRENADA. THANKS FOR YOUR HOSPITALITY. GOD BLESS YOU. 2/505TH 82ND AIRBORNE...
...grown a new worry line: an asp of a blood vessel that snakes across his left temple. Heaven knows he needs it. San Francisco is overrun with thrill-juiced punks and Mafia goons. No sweat, though: Harry has more artillery than the Cubans ever dreamed of stocking on Grenada. Interrupting a stickup in a diner, he aims a Smith & Wesson the size of Mr. T's forearm at an armed robber and grimaces, "Make my day." Then Harry insults a Mob chieftain with such savagery that the old man suffers a fatal heart attack. "Hey," he later shrugs...
...obeys the minimal decencies of the welfare state, but is still alien to its ethic, still nibbling at the edges of civil rights, union power and social welfare. On the other hand is a Democratic Party so embarrassed by any assertion of American power that it meets even the Grenada operation with automatic, almost reflexive opposition (that is, until the opinion polls come out, at which point most Democrats neatly reverse field...