Radio Address to the Nation on Prayer
09/17/1982
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We must ensure that reductions occur through transfer and attrition and not through a reduction-in-force.
Today, for example, we know that no one had to push the clique that seized power in Grenada into the arms of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
The Communists have suppressed free speech and free press.
We cannot and we must not permit this to happen.