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...When the rumor of Baker's departure surfaced at an owners' meeting in Nashville, some political pros took it as a sign that Reagan might not seek a second term. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, who heads the Reagan re-election effort, quickly reasserted that the President would declare his candidacy in late January, and stressed that Baker was "vital to the re-election effort. He's a hell of a lot more important than [Campaign Director] Ed Rollins or myself...
...fire. Before dawn on tiny Green Island, just off Grenada, a patrolling American literally stepped on a man, who leaped up, fired a few AK-47 rounds and scrambled into a waiting motorboat with three comrades. Two of the Americans were grazed. (The week had started with a wild rumor that Soviet commandos had put ashore. Their submarine turned out to be, in the words of a U.S. spokesman, "a whale and two intoxicated fishermen...
While the Administration's Grenada venture had turned out a popular success, the Government's information apparatus was still in some disarray. Last week, for example, State Department Spokesman John Hughes officially confirmed a rumor that a grave holding more than 100 bodies of Grenadians slain by Marxist forces in the "bloody Wednesday" massacre of Oct. 19 had been found on the island. Next day he had to admit there was no such discovery. U.S. military authorities later located a grave believed to have held the burned bodies of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and three Cabinet members...
...hopes that the Speaker doesn't plan to begin running his foreign policy on the advice of ABC. Does the country's most prominent Democrat really want to stand behind such an invasion? The Grenada invasion not only flouted international law but also continues to be fraught with rumor and uncertainty and includes perhaps the largest cover-up operation since Watergate...
Unlike most of the others in the rumor will. Knowles has had relatively little administrative experience, with his recent three-year stint as Chemistry Department chairman the only major post he's held...