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Despite Scoon's proclamation, Grenadians overwhelmingly support the U.S. invasion. A CBS news poll of 304 Grenadians revealed that 91 percent approved of the American invasion. However, these figures do not translate into support for a center-right Western government. From its birth in March 1979, Bishop's leftist New Jewel movement enjoyed widespread popularity. With Bishop's assassination, Grenadians feared the prospect of Cuban domination under General Hudson Austin. Ironically, if free elections were held today, a center-left government--the type Reagan so ardently opposed--would probably...
Still, the rattled nerves in Managua could only have pleased the Reagan Administration in Washington, which has long sought to curb Nicaraguan support for leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The four nations that form the so-called Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) announced last week that all the region's governments, including even a wary Nicaragua, had agreed on a schedule for substantive discussions about a comprehensive Central American peace plan. If the Big Pine II exercises and Grenada invasion have encouraged Nicaragua's cooperation, said a State Department official tartly, "so much the better...
...Administration has also come under mounting criticism in Congress and elsewhere for its policies in El Salvador. Since 1979, right-wing death squads that are backed, and in many cases staffed, by the military and by government security forces have murdered thousands of people suspected of leftist sympathies. Stung by charges that it has not pressed the government of Alvaro Magaña hard enough on the matter, the White House sent Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé to San Salvador two weeks ago to demand action. In a major policy statement delivered in Dallas after his return...
...wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Orwell not only sensed the distaste that unemployed miners would feel for such studied eccentricities, he shared the feeling. He also perceived something that was to reverberate in political writings for half a century: ascendant leftist theories threatened to replace one form of tyranny with another. "The truth is that to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we,' the clever ones...
...Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association were set to publish A Time to Heal, an account by Gerald Ford of his life and presidency. Shortly before the book was due out, the Nation (circ. 48,000), a leftist weekly, summarized Ford's account of his pardon of Richard Nixon, using a stolen copy of the book without Ford's permission. A U.S. district court ruled that the Nation had taken the former President's work in violation of the federal copyright laws, and directed the magazine to pay the publishers damages...