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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 11, 1983
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We had a great poet who has been called the father of Latin
American poetry. He said, "You who have the light, give it to me
because I have it not." Please inform me if at all possible and
don't turn down my request.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
Name withheld (Managua, Nicaragua)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
GRENADA "MOP-UP": MR. NIXON SPEAKS OUT
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl have ended their public
reservations about the U.S. military intervention in Grenada. Worried that
further criticisms of President Reagan's action may hurt the far larger
(for them) issue of the NATO missile deployment in Europe, the two leaders,
at a joint press conference in Bonn, declared that "it is important now to
reemphasize our ties with the United States."
Nevertheless, doubts about the way Mr. Reagan carried out the Grenada
operation--Bonn and London were not informed ahead of time--has left
lingering doubts across the Atlantic.
The single-handed U.S. action has, for instance, increased calls in both
Britain and West Germany for a host-country "dual key" to the trigger of the
Pershing II and cruise missiles.
Such a precaution, it is felt, might
prevent any "recklessness" on the part of the United States on the far more
dangerous area of a "nuclear exchange" in Europe.
The Soviets hardly welcome such a development. The Americans they trust:
even a joint U.S.-Britain "dual-key" operation is not too bad. But for the
Germans to nudge closer to the trigger--that's something else again. None
other than Franz Josef Strauss made such an appeal for "dual control" some
weeks back. (Strauss, it must also be noted, has been thoroughly support
ive of the U.S. move into Grenada, lambasting Chancellor Kohl for his lack
of immediate and firm approval.)
Soviet/Cuban Designs Thwarted
The United States is putting on display some of the Soviet and East Bloc
weaponry that it captured while routing Cuban and Grenadian Marxist forces
on the tiny Caribbean island. The Reagan administration now claims that
475 tons of Soviet Bloc weapons were taken, bolstering the U.S. contention
that Grenada was being turned into a staging area for further Soviet and
Cuban "island hopping" throughout the Caribbean.
An article was sent to the News Bureau which appeared in THE VOICE, a
newspaper published in St. Lucia, one of the island nations participating
in the Grenada sweep.
In its August 24, 1983 issue--well before the
intervention--the editors ran an article entitled, "A Well Orchestrated
Plan--Caribbean Satellites for Moscow." It was authored by a Trinidadian
journalist with the unlikely name of Trevor "Burnt Boots" Smith. Mr. Smith
had recently attended an international conference of journalists in North
Korea, of all places, and had this to report: