University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1983
NATION AND WORLD
Page 11
Lawmakers praise and criticize Grenada invasion
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress gave cautious support to the invasion of Grenada yesterday, but one Democrat accused President Reagan of being "trigger-happy," and another Democrat reagged Reagan's "cowboy mentality."
"We have a trigger-happy president, Ronald Reagan, who is recklessly landing us in two civil wars, one in Lebanon and one in Grenada," Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., told reporters after a briefing.
"This kind of cowboy mentality has very dangerous implications," said Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., accusing Reagan of "using black Caribbean nations as a veil to the military ambitions of this administration."
Rep. Dennis Eckart, D-Ohio, said,
"It's just suplus-side foreign policy."
"It's just supply-side foreign policy. . . We supply the arms, we supply the munitions . . . and now we supply the bodies."
HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki, D-Wis., said he was deeply disappointed. Reagan "failed to consult with the Congress before deploying U.S. troops into a combat situation abroad, as he is required to do under the War Powers Resolution."
For the most part, Republicans applauded the landing, calling it
essential and a warning to the Soviet Union that the United States will not permit further intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
But many Democrats were skeptical, saying the landing by nearly 2,000 Army Rangers and Marines was an act of war.
Secretary of State George Shultz invoked a little-known agreement
'They were endangered. The island was in chaos. There were orders to shoot on sight violators of the 24-hour curfew. This action seemed essential.' — Sen. Charles Percy, R-III.
among several Caribbean nations to justify the invasion of Grenada, but critics questioned the legal basis for the decision.
"CLEARLY, THERE ARE some serious international legal questions," said Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md, head of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs, the main House oversight committee on Latin American and Caribbean matters.
In explaining the action to reporters,
Shultz invoked Article 8 of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States charter, which sets up a defense and security mission to defend the defense of the participating nations.
His comments implied that it was an important organization, and the desires of its members could take precedence over the actions of the people of American States and the OAS' Rio
'We have a trigger-happy president, Ronald Reagan, who is recklessly landing us in two civil wars, one in Lebanon and one in Grenada.'
Sen. Alan Cranston D-Calif.
Treaty, which prohibited any state from intervening militarily or otherwise in the internal affairs of another OAS country.
GRENADA IS A member of the OAS, as is the United States. Some of the Caribbean nations involved in the invasion are members of the OAS, some are not, but none has signed the Rio Treaty.
A congressional source familiar with Latin American and Caribbean affairs, explains that Mr. Trump's
invoke the little-known agreement, to which the United States is not a signatory.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy, R-III, flown on Chicago in the pre-dawn darkness on an Air Force jet for the meeting, said, "Our primary responsibility is to detect the 1,000 Americans" in Grenada.
"They were endangered. The island was in chaos. There were orders to shoot on sight violators of the 24-hour warning. This action seemed essential." Percy say.
But Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., called the action "an act of war." Moynihan told reporters the United States did not have the right to invade Grenada to restore democracy there.
THE INVASION OF Grenada was greeted with decided coolness by the United States' staunchest allies and a perilous condemnation from the Soviet Union.
Most shocked by the U.S. move were the nations of Latin America, where there is a traditional fear of American intervention
Not a single Latin American nation said it supported the U.S. led invasion. Marxist Nicaragua, which fears it could be the target of American intervention, called for a meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
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