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...support, and his capitalist Jamaica Labor Party had 51 of the 60 seats in the country's Parliament. Nonetheless, Seaga last week became the first Caribbean leader to cash in on a wave of popular support for his nation's participation in the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada. After polls showed his popularity rising above 50% for the first time since he was elected, Seaga called a snap election...
...Jamaica's extreme left. By emphasizing the role of his country's 175 troops in the Caribbean Peace Force, Seaga did his best to exploit lingering fears of the left. Said Carl Stone, Jamaica's leading political pollster: "People see that what happened to [Grenada's assassinated Prime Minister] Maurice Bishop could have happened to Manley: a popular leader encircled, controlled and then eliminated by the radical left...
...Center, which found in 1976 that 29% of the population had "a great deal of confidence in the press," reports that this year that figure fell to a new low of 13.7%. The most vivid indication of the souring attitude toward the press came when the Reagan Administration invaded Grenada and excluded reporters from the scene. Journalists argued impassionedly that the press's freedom and the public's "right to know" were at stake. But to many of their countrymen, the lack of coverage seemed inconsequential-even gratifying-as if laryngitis had silenced a chronic complainer...
...doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing." But many in Chancellor's audience rejected his premise that journalists stand in for the people: in 500 letters and phone calls to NBC, viewers supported the press ban in Grenada 5 to 1. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings said that "99%" of his mail from viewers on the issue supported Reagan. Newspapers also protested the exclusion, and evoked the same sort of response: the trade publication Editor and Publisher found, in an informal survey of about a dozen dailies, that letters...
...most astounding thing about the Grenada situation was the quick, facile assumption by some of the public that the press wanted to get in, not to witness the invasion on behalf of the people, but to sabotage...