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Subject: Re: O'Neill Shifts on Grenada - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 15:38:50 EST
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uiuccsb!eich    Nov 16 19:55:00 1983


Or O'Neill may have been swayed by the House Democrats (Majority Whip
Foley, Ed Boland of Intelligence, and Barnes of FA on Latin America)
who had just returned from their `fact-finding' tour, and who
vigorously confirmed polls which showed that 91% of the islanders
favored the action, and 85% affirmed the proposition that the mission's
purpose was to free them (Granadans) with only 62% professing that the
intent was to secure the safety of Americans there.

Whether it was opportunism or `fact-finding', who can say?  Probably
it was a happy combination of the two!  Of course O'Neill reversed
himself somewhat the next day...