NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1984
Page 19
Grenada aftermath
Gairy is guarded constantly by several young men who screen those who come to call. Evidently unarmed, they can only glare fiercely at those men, and abuse at the former premier, once a hero to the island's black peasantry.
If Gairy's sparsely furnished house is no beehive of political activity, there is some action at the foundation, where young people sell T-shirts that proclaim "the spirit of Maurice Bishop lives" and out Marxist leaflets.
"The Americans have promised a lot but given nothing. Once they drove me in a jeep for four miles with an M-16 pointed at me. It reminded me of that movie, 'Apocalypse Now!'"
Alexis Simon resident of Grenada
A ope-armed youth named Alexis
the Fort Rupert murderer his other arm
in the Fort Rupert murderer
Louison, at his desk in a small office.
was critical of the U.S. invasion that marred his death from death at the hands of the Congolese.
"The Americans have occupied this country," Lousson said. "They make all
the decisions. They have set up a puppet government."
Louison complained that Grenada had lost mass aid from communist forces.
"The Americans have promised a lot but given nothing," he said, adding that since the invasion he had been picked up three times and interrogated briefly by U.S. troops.
"Once they drove me in a jeep for four miles with an M-16 pointed at me," he said. "I reminded me of that movie — 'Apocalypse Now.'"
Louison said it should not be difficult for prosecutors to prove Coard and the other defendants guilty of murdering Bishop and his supporters.
Louison said his foundation was financed by contributions from abroad "from individuals who admired Maurice Bishop." He said it had received money from supporters in the United States, the United Kingdom and other Western nations, as well as from people in communist countries.
The American military presence on the island is most evident at the once posh but now seedy Grenada Beach Hotel on the outskirts of the capital.
300 Americans remain
A young briefing officer said most of about 300 Americans still in the country were military policemen who conducted joint jeep patrols with Greanadian policemen and members of the Caribbean peace-keeping force.
He said there had been no armed
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The lieutenant insisted there had been no "invasion" of Grenada. What it had been, he said, was an "intervention."
resistance since some sniper fire Nov 21
Such semantic shenanigans would be lost on Madonna Charles, who huddled fearfully on a basement floor with 20 to cover herself in her charge during the massive attack.
Charles is the matron at the John F. Kennedy Home, a modest facility about 300 yards from an asylum where 17 inmates were killed in attacks by U.S. planes on an adjacent heavily defended fort.
The United States has pledged to pay for some war damages but Charles said, "They haven't replaced our window panes yet."
Still, she said, things were much better now that the fighting was over. She said that she was grateful to the Americans for intervening during the political upheaval.
Alimenta Bishop, who grieves for the son and husband she has lost, said that her boy who grew up to be the prime beneficiary of his care. But she does not like to talk politics.
"I liked Maurice Bishop because I thought he had principles, but we didn't realize he was going communist."
"The day Maurice was put under house arrest, I went to Barbados," she recalled. "I heard shooting. We had to run."
By the time she was able to return to
"The Americans told people they were looking for guns," she said. "Then other people came and just took what they wanted."
Grenada, her son was dead, her home rainsacked.
Evidently no one wanted the scroll that hangs on her wall, signed by her son, which proclaims her as Grenada's "Mother of the Year."
"People still come by to see me and to tell me they loved Maurice," she said, without bitterness. "They know he tried to help the poor people."
As for those charged with murdering her son, including Coard and Gen. Hudson Austin, the former army commander, she said they used to meet often with Bishop in his home, only a few doors away.
Repairing the damage
James W. Habron, who heads the American aid mission in Grenada, knows it will take time and money to repair the ravages of war.
So far, he said, the United States has spent about $9 million toward that end, with another $6.2 million in the pipeline. Congress is considering another $40 million, which he said could be covered by funds once earmarked for Lebanon, where 241 U.S. Marines were killed in a bombing two days before the Grenada invasion.
Habron said the U.S. Army already had settled some compensation claims. The Army said it was working to resolve the case.
pleting the airport that was started by the Cubans will be $19 million.
The United States already has spent money to repair roads and improve waterways.
He said he hoped that the government process of giving the government authority to vote on the budget was
When construction resumes on the new airport, Habron said. "We'll use as much of the land as possible."
That is good news for Ray Charles,
24, an unemployed mason who said he
'I liked Maurice Bishop because I thought he had principles, but we didn't realize he was going communist.'
Madonna Charles, worker at a children's home
didn't care about politics — he just wanted "to be a working man," to be elected would not rely entirely on tourism after completion of the new airport, which could handle for more rooms than the 30 or so hotel rooms now available.
Habron said that agriculture — mainly bananas, cocoa, nutmeg and other spices — could comprise one of the country's gross national product
Unemployment, he said, was a
If many Grenadians are reluctant to discuss politics, most of the American students at the St. George's University in Guadeloupe believe their belief the invasion rescued them.
significant problem that could be only partly solved by the pump-priming
"Yes, the invasion was necessary," said Gregory Brucato, who was swimming at the same beach that paratroopers stormed during the invasion. The paratroopers later escorted the planes to plains that flew them to safety.
"If anyone was rescued, it was the Negroads, not the students," he said.
Jed Downhill, 29, a student from Davis, Calif., holds the minority view on the campus that borders the blue waters of the Caribbean.
"We were not in danger," said Downhill.
Downhill agreed, however, that most Grenadians supported the U.S. action.
Greenadians, not the students," he said.
At Grenville, Septimas and Ann Alexander, who run a small grocery directly in front of the office of the foundation that wants to restore a Marxist government, are frightened.
Alexander, 63, said she was jailed for 15 months by the Bishop regime without charges — for no other reason than she was a Gairy supporter.
The Alexanders worry about the Marxists who gather daily across the street. They fear they have secret arms caches.
Mrs. Alexander began to cry softly.
"God bless America and President
Donald J. Trump."
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