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Subject: Re: O'Neill Shifts on Grenada - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 12:58:36 EST
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	From: eich@uiuccsb.UUCP
	Subject: Re: O'Neill Shifts on Grenada - (nf)
	Message-ID: <3962@uiucdcs.UUCP>
	Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 15:38:50 EST

	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.

Ah yes, the "poll".  Picture this:  you're a Grenadan citizen who over the
past several years has seen one right-wing dictatorship (Gairy), a coup, a
left-wing (though popular) dictator, another coup, a very harsh-seeming
dictator, never a sign of a truly free press, and suddenly an invasion by
one of the strongest nations in the world.  Then some clown you've never
seen before, with a tape recorder or a notebook, comes over to you and says
"Hi, I'm from CBS news; my computer printout shows that you are a truly
random individual, with all the appropriate demographic characteristics --
see, they're listed right here, including your probable income level -- and
I'd like to ask you what you think of the U.S. invasion."  What are you going
to answer?  (Hint:  while you were talking, a jeep full of U.S. marines drove
by on routine patrol.)