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...partly because it would have placed restrictions on industrial bonds issued by states to finance major construction projects. This offended some special interests-construction contractors, building-trades unions and bond brokers-and they put the squeeze on Congress. When brought to the floor at the insistence of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the bill could not even muster enough votes to set the rules for debating...
Interrogations, conducted in assembly-line fashion, are nearly finished. Out of a population of 110,000, 2,200 Grenadians have been questioned at a jerry-built camp behind the nearly finished Point Salines airport on the island's southwestern tip. Most prisoners were kept in tents behind snarls of barbed wire, but some were obliged to crawl inside 8-ft. by 8-ft. wooden crates and spend 24 hours there. Finally, last week, Washington ordered the unseemly cages dismantled...
...west coast, sat watching from a bridge railing. They broke into loud applause. So, too, did local women at the sides of the field. The American troops, who had been searching for armed Cuban or Grenadian holdouts in the little war that was over, had been given a bad tip. They stood up to return the waves of the villagers...
...congressional study group concluded, after a three-day trip to Grenada, that Reagan's move had been justified. The 14 members of Congress, headed by Democrat Thomas Foley of Washington State, reported to House Speaker Tip O'Neill that most of them felt that the students had been possible targets for a Tehran-type taking of hostages. This caused O'Neill, who had denounced Reagan's decision, to reverse himself. Noting that "a potentially life-threatening situation existed on the island," the Speaker said that the invasion "was justified under these particular circumstances...
...prevailingly positive public mood was reflected in Congress, where the critical outbursts that erupted two weeks ago were more muted last week. With the help of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and the Democratic leadership, the Administration beat back, by a 274-to-153 vote, an attempt in the House to cut off funds for the Marines in Beirut. Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat, expressed the feeling of most members when he argued that withdrawing the Marines would damage the fragile peace talks under way in Geneva, hurt the government of Lebanon and help Syria have...