While wounded US troops and medical students were leaving Grenada, US reporters were angrily demanding to be let in. Newspaper headlines on 25 and 26 October denounced the Reagan administration for condoning “an unparalleled act of censorship that forced the public to rely on the Government’s self-serving accounts of the action.”128 In a session before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 27 October, Senator Paul Sarbanes (D, Maryland) noted that “the treatment by the Administration of the free press raises very serious questions about our function as a free society.”129 Senator Nancy Kassebaum (R, Kansas) dismissed earlier DOD statements that reporters had to be kept from the island for their own safety with the remark that “reporters have faced far worse conditions in Lebanon.” Other 56 senators cited the presence of reporters with invasion forces on D-day in 1944.130 In response |
OPERATION URGENT FURY The Planning and Execution of Joint Operations in Grenada 12 October - 2 November 1983 Joint History Office Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Washington, DC 1997 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cole, Ronald H., 1943- Operation Urgent Fury : the planning and execution of joint operations in Grenada, 12 October-2 November 1983 / Ronald H. Cole. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Grenada--History--American Invasion, 1983. 2. Military planning--United States. 3. United States--Armed Forces--Grenada. 4. United States--Armed Forces--Civic action. I. Title F2056.8.C65 1997 97-10401 972.9845--dc21 CIP |