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...darkness. Weapons in hand, they crept up the hill overlooking the quaint 18th century city of St. George's. They rushed toward Government House, where Sir Paul Scoon, the island's British-appointed Governor-General, had been held under virtual house arrest by Grenada's revolutionary Marxist military leaders. Driven back at first by gunfire from house guards, the Seals attacked again and took charge of the mansion...
...argued House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois. "It is in our hemisphere. We are beginning to draw some lines here. How much of it do you take before you say, 'This is enough'?" Trent Lott of Mississippi agreed: "We don't want another pro-Castro Marxist government down there." Senate Democrats were far harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan's new interventionism," Thomas Eagleton of Missouri said it represented "a trigger-happy foreign policy," and New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted: "I don't know that you restore democracy...
...scarcely any surprise that the violence in Grenada angered Desi Bouterse, the paranoid dictator of Suriname (pop. 350,000), about 600 miles away on the coast of South America. What raised eyebrows was that Bouterse, a self-styled Marxist, directed his wrath not against the U.S. but against his ally Cuba. Last week he abruptly expelled Havana's Ambassador, giving him six days to get out of the country, and suspended all Cuban cultural and education agreements. Bouterse's explanation: "The leadership of the Suriname revolution is convinced that a repetition of developments in Grenada should be prevented...
...probably telling the truth. Bouterse may have feared that he would surfer the same fate as his friend Maurice Bishop, the Marxist Prime Minister of Grenada who was deposed and killed. Bouterse hinted that he suspected Cuban complicity in Bishop's overthrow. Perhaps too, Bouterse, who seems motivated primarily by a desire to maintain his repressive regime, did some political recalculating in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He may have concluded that leftist revolution is no longer the wave of the future in the Caribbean and that he should make himself less obnoxious...
...engage the Cubans, topple an unfriendly regime, and ultimately install a puppet government. Such tactics are usually associated with the Soviet Union-for example, in connection with the invasion of Afghanistan. And at least the Soviets can claim Afghanistan is of essential strategic importance to them. Grenada-as Marxist two weeks ago as it is now-hardly constitutes a danger to U.S. security. By invading Grenada, we've lost a large chunk of the moral high ground we held in our ideological duel with the U.S.S.R...