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...Donald Regan. At 2:45 a.m. on Saturday, Shultz was awakened in the Eisenhower cottage at Augusta with an urgent cable from Barbados, which told him that the eastern Caribbean states wanted the U.S. to invade Grenada. Shultz and the new National Security Adviser, Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, reported the request to Vice President Bush on a secure telephone line to Washington at about 3:30 a.m. Bush, in turn, roused other NSC officials to discuss the plea. He told Shultz and McFarlane that the advisers were eager, at the least, to speed the planning for an invasion...
...talks centered on the Marines in Lebanon. That tragedy provided a cover of secrecy for talks about the invasion. Reagan decided that the Beirut bombings made it even more imperative that the U.S. act decisively in the Caribbean, especially since the island nations would know if their request for action had been turned down. Declared Reagan: "We cannot let an act of terrorism determine whether we aid or assist our allies in the region. If we do that, who will ever trust us again...
...request was prompted by the October 18 initiation, which sent 10 new members of the all-male social club to University Health Services for treatment of excessive alcohol consumption and related injuries...
McGoniagle said about half the retailers have complied with the boycott request...
Cohen explains that she first got the idea for 'Common Threads' from the 1982 East Cambridge River Festival where she met the various fabric artists. The Cambridge City Arts, Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities. Polaroid Foundation, and MIT Museum all responded to Cohen's request for support and funding...