Word: gunboat
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...terms them "inconsistent" with President Reagan's efforts to promote peace negotiations between the Sandinistas and the contras. For the most part, however, even persistent critics of Reagan's Central American policy are undisturbed. Says Larry Birns, the avowedly liberal director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "This is gunboat diplomacy upgraded, but a bit of pressure doesn't hurt...
...Hart-Jackson "Stop Mondale" movement appears unlikely, however. Hart is scrambling to assure Jewish voters that he would not pick Jackson as a Vice President unless Jackson abandoned his pro-Arab tilt. Jackson, for his part, has been blasting Hart and Mondale equally for supporting the "supplyside economics" and "gunboat diplomacy" of President Reagan. He was swinging wildly and becoming increasingly moody and erratic as he tried to transform his flailing political crusade into a one-man peace movement. He has fired off a telegram to Syrian President Hafez Assad demanding the release of two Israeli diplomats, and proclaimed that...
...while the Arafat evacuation from Tripoli also seemed in doubt. Five Greek ships had been chartered to take the P.L.O. forces out, under the protection of French naval vessels, including the aircraft carrier Clemenceau. The plan nearly collapsed when the Israelis made it clear, with their repeated gunboat bombardments of Tripoli, that they did not intend to let Arafat slip away unscathed-and maybe not at all. High-ranking sources in Jerusalem told TIME that the Israeli government had actually authorized special military and intelligence units to infiltrate Tripoli under the cover of the naval gunfire and assassinate the P.L.O...
...They are joined by a common fear: that history will repeat itself. They disagree as to precisely what history is about to be repeated, but everyone is quick to raise the specter of the return of some dreaded "another." The critics see another Viet Nam here, another round of gunboat diplomacy (carried out by another Teddy Roosevelt) there. Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen under Cuban influence after a recent military takeover. The day after...
...point of a bayonet." House Democrats were initially more muted, with Speaker Tip O'Neill contending that criticism was inappropriate while the fighting was under way. But once the battle on the island was winding down, O'Neill declared, "We can't go the way of gunboat diplomacy. His policy is wrong. His policy is frightening...