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...Grenada Debate...
...Grenada, the troops hunt snipers-and try the beach...
...holiday celebration, coming in the fourth week of the U.S. military presence on Grenada, signaled that the state of war on the island was coming to an end. The throng of American journalists, once 700 strong, had dwindled to about ten, and 900 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division departed in time to eat their turkey at home. That left 1,200 combat and 1,900 support troops in Grenada, about half the total at the height of the invasion. In Washington, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pledged that almost all the soldiers would be home by Christmas. Said...
...active. Army intelligence estimates that there are 20 to 40 armed men, Cuban or Grenadian Marxists, hiding out in the hills. Two of them fired on a five-man U.S. patrol in the central jungle last week, then fled back into the bush. Army helicopters continued to scour the Grenada shoreline, hunting for enemy boats, while nine-man infantry squads staked out trails in the jungle. Roadblocks are still manned after dark. The sight of well-armed American soldiers has become so familiar that one hotelkeeper grumpily noted, "I'm tired of seeing guns...
...well as minority student advocates of affirmative action and curriculum reform. But the atmosphere at the Law School is freed of much of last year's tension. By loosening up and listening to student concerns (and coincidentally by taking a gutsy public stand against the illegal USA invasion of Grenada), Law School dean James Vorenberg has shown commendable sensitivity to the on-campus and beyond-campus issues that Black and other minority people care deeply about. Such sensitivity has gained more for the institution than stonewalling ever could...