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Some of the Caribbean cor respondents who resented the restrictions that kept them out of Grenada also disapproved of the scene they helped create. Said Liz Trotta of CBS: "Viet Nam was a real war for real correspondents. This is ridiculous, to see the press becoming part of the main story. Why should anyone expect the U.S. military to take 400 reporters with them on an invasion?" Commented Jim Minter, executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "A military operation like this is not the World Series...
...concerns of the press. He was Les Janka, 43, a six-year veteran of the National Security Council staff who last summer became President Reagan's deputy press secretary for foreign affairs. Like his boss, Press Secretary Larry Speakes, Janka had not been told in advance about the Grenada operation; thus when White House correspondents asked them about rumors of an impending invasion, they both denied the story. Janka drafted a candid letter of resignation, but before he could send it, White House officials accused him of telling the Washington Post that Speakes was also thinking of quitting. After...
Back at the airport in Barbados, one sweltering day last week, Air Force Captain Keith Graham leaned across the counter before him. He was wearing camouflage fatigues that looked as though he had slept in them. In his best parade-ground voice, Graham bellowed, "Anybody want to go to Grenada?" An old Barbadian woman who was trying to sweep up the debris of pizza crusts and paper cups gave Graham a toothless smile, but she offered no answer...
...Well," said Graham, "I guess everyone who wants to go to Grenada is there." -By Otto Friedrich...
...sadder aspects of the Grenada invasion was the hostility of this country's highest brass toward the press. This differs from the workaday friction between the press and any Administration, or from the special problems the press Ronald in dealing with a White House skilled in staging the news to Ronald Reagan's advantage. These are tolerable tensions, probably good for everybody...