NATION AND WORLD: THE GRENADA INVASION
University Daily Kansan, October 27.1983
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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - U.S. Army soldiers aid a wounded comrade from a helicopter to a temporary hospital.
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Aiken, S.C., working support duties in the staging area at Barbados, 150 miles east of Grenada.
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"The Cubans were really good, really dedicated . . . maybe even better than us."
The defense chief said the U.S. led invasion force was holding about 600 Cuban prisoners, including a colonel and two American soldiers than a major Cuban military installation.
A U.S. MILITARY transport flea group of 69 Americans and two British citizens to Charleston, S.C., in the first week of U.S. citizenship from the tiny island.
Two of the evacuates knelt and kissed the ground as they got off the plane.
"I don't think there is any more beautiful sight than being in the United States, or perhaps seeing the Rangers arrive to save us," said Jean Gaultier, a former unstilished my faith in the United States and I am glad to be home — real glad."
The State Department said earlier that about half of the estimated 800 to 1,000 American civilians on Grenada have asked to be evacuated and will be flown to Air Force bases in the continental United States.
Spokesman John Hughes said that
most of the U.S. citizens on the island were "under U.S. military control" and no casualties among them were reported.
U. S. helicopters and transport planes flew up to 1,000 more U.S. troops from the famed 82nd Airborne Division and additional supplies to Grenada, bringing the total number of U.S. forces on the island to nearly 3,000.
IN WASHINGTON, presidential spokesman Larry Speaks said that Reagan ordered the invasion of Grenada after rejection as untrustworthy assurances from the island's Marxist leaders that Americans were safe and free to leave, his chief spokesman said yesterday.
"It was a floating crap game down there and we never knew who was in charge," presidential spokesman Larry Speaks said.
English upset by U.S. moves; Thatcher meets with Queen
The prime minister spent about
“There was just no way, in our collective judgment, with the collective judgment of the neighboring islands, that we could be at all assured that their promises would be kept — that we would have been chaotic and which would have resulted in disaster,” he said.
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hours at Buckingham Palace at a routine weekly meeting to review government business. The meetings are leaked about the consultations.
LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, accused by opposition leaders of being President Reagan's "obedient poof," met with Queen Elizabeth II yesterday to consult over the U.S. led invasion of Grenada that—technically—could夺住 war with the United States.
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But political observers said that the U.S. invasion of Grenada was an unavoidable topic. Buckingham Palace had confirmed that her husband, Philippe Couve, was in situation in the Caribbean island of which she is titular head of state.
"Angered by the U.S. action, Denis Healey, the opposition Labor Party's foreign affairs spokesman, said that "President Reagan is not yet king of England," the Evening Standard newspaper reported.
Commonwealth country — by U.S. and Caribbean states has placed Britain in a difficult constitutional and diplomatic position.
Talk in Washington of instructing Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon to start forming an interim administration to restore democracy raised a further "constitutional conundrum," a senior government source said. Traditionally, the governor-general, as the queen's representative, stands above politics in independent nations.
And, technically at least, Grenada has the right to ask Britain for aid in repelling the invaders — a theoretical situation that would place Britain and the United States on opposite sides of a conflict.
Surinam suspends Cuban relations to avert coup
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PARAMARIBO, Surinam — Marxist-surinam ordered out Cuba's ambassador and suspended all agreements with Fidel Castro in what Western diplomats said yesterday was a violation of the condemned coup similar to the one in Grenada.
The diplomas said Surinam's military leader, Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse, was a close friend of Grendian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, killed in a last week, and feared that Cuba have the same fate in store for him.
Boutense announced the moves against Cuba in a television broadcast Tuesday night, making it clear he wanted to involve of involvement in Bishop's overthrow.
About 100 Cubans are in the country,
a former Dutch colony on the northern
const of South America The Cubans are working on health, forestry, fishing
"The leadership of the Surinam revolution is convinced that a repetition of developments in Grenada should be followed by an increase in Suriname is a sum of 600 miles from Surinam.
and agriculture projects as well as military training.
Boutense said that those projects had been suspended indefinitely.
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