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...Helmut Kohl maintained its formal opposition to the invasion, Kohl last week expressed "understanding" for the U.S. move. West German Government Spokesman Jürgen Sudhoff explained that "additional elements," such as the discovery of armed Cuban construction workers and the Grenadian Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon's plea for help, had cast new light on the events...
...sorry to read on page one of The Crimson that "Drinking Age Hike to 21 Gains in Congress," for there is another side to the issue. Let's put the Federal plea to raise the drinking age to 21 into perspective. Because such measures focus on the trouble that some young misusers of alcohol cause, let's start by thinking of things that some under-21 year olds do that cause trouble...
...eastern Caribbean states wanted the U.S. to invade Grenada. Shultz and the new National Security Adviser, Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, reported the request to Vice President Bush on a secure telephone line to Washington at about 3:30 a.m. Bush, in turn, roused other NSC officials to discuss the plea. He told Shultz and McFarlane that the advisers were eager, at the least, to speed the planning for an invasion. At 5:15 a.m. Reagan listened to Shultz and McFarlane explain the invasion request. He wanted to get the views of Bush and Defense Secretary Weinberger firsthand and telephoned them...
...arrest. Those negotiations continued until the 19th, when Bishop was executed on the evening of the 20th, contingency plans began in the Pentagon for the possible use of force in the area. An urgent call came the next day from Prime Minister Adams of Barbados, the government, adding the plea to intelligence information from the island that the Americans might be in danger, interpreted it as a call for action. With American ships, holding what were called reinforcements for Lebanon, steaming toward the area, Prime Minister Adams called other members of the OECS to persuade them to sanction the invasion...
Vink pleaded not guilty and was released after her pretrial date was set for November 3. Martin, after receiving advice from a lawyer at the Harvard Divinity school, pleaded no contest-a plea which will go on their records as "guilty." Martin had prepared a statement to read in court, but the judge would not permit her to read it. --Yale Daily News