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...Grenada Neighbor...
...interview he spoke almost wistfully of American power in days gone by. "There were the many crisis situations in the Eisenhower years and we never lost a single soldier," he said. He says we never should have gone to Beirut in the first place and that the invasion of Grenada was a misuse of our power. He would have left both crises up to the United Nations. Since its inception he has been a strong advocate of the U.N. and wishes it were more effective. He was one of two Republicans President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 sent to the first...
Both saw Literary grist in the Waugh-like war in Grenada. Naipaul, says his London agent, came "to take some mental pictures." Thompson, says his New York editor, was after "a Hunter piece." The anecdotes are as lush as the Grenadian jungle. Staying at a nearby hotel is a CIA man who lives like a bat, eating beans and canned Dinty Moore stew and going out only at night. Then there is Morgan, the inmate at the bombed-out mental hospital, who turned up one evening playing piano at the Red Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken...
Nonetheless, the family reunion splintered into fraternal bickering. Shortly after Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi welcomed the participants, a majority of them began pushing for a resolution condemning the Oct. 25 U.S. invasion of Grenada. Leaders from five of the Eastern Caribbean states that had joined the U.S. forces refused to go along. In the course of an unusually acrimonious discussion, a vocal contingent from the African states of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mauritius claimed that the U.S. action might encourage the South Africans to invade neighboring countries on the pretext of protecting its nationals abroad. In response, Dominica...
...informality that loosens tongues among Commonwealth leaders sometimes serves to tie their hands. When, for example, it was suggested that the Commonwealth provide its own "umbrella of security" for its smaller members, including Grenada, many strongly opposed the move as too formal and forceful a gesture. But the body finally did agree to lend support to a new security force to be formed by the Eastern Caribbean states...