Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Grenada prepares for visit from Reagan
United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Posters of a smiling President Reagan lined the streets of St. George's yesterday as Grenada prepared to welcome the American leader tomorrow on a visit to commemorate the 1983 U.S. invasion.
Reagan will start his first visit to the tiny Caribbean island, twice the size of Washington, D.C., by flying into Port Sallines Airport — which the United States spent $20 million to
help finish last year.
At the time of the invasion, the Reagan administration charged that the airport was built in the early 1980s by Cubans to help spread communism in the eastern Caribbean.
The Grenadian government of then Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro, contended the airport was constructed to boost tourism.
In October 1983, after a radical faction assassinated the charismatic Bishop, several of his ministers and
scores of his followers. Reagan sent in more than 7,000 soldiers to overthrow the government.
The invasion cost the lives of 19 U.S. soldiers and 70 other people and ushered in a pro-American government. Many people in Grenada said they welcomed the move.
A national holiday was declared for Reagan's visit. Posters of the president were hung along many streets in the capital of St. George's, an old town of pastel green, pink and blue buildings that line the quiet sailboat-
filled harbor and climb into the hills surrounding the volcanic island.
"Come welcome President Reagan to Grenada," the posters say, inviting Grenadians to a rally Reagan will attend in Queen's Park to conclude his five-hour visit.
It was difficult to find anyone who opposed the trip, from Prime Minister Herbert Blaize to fish sellers along the harbor in the country that still suffers from serious economic problems, including an unemployment rate that runs between 25 and 33 percent.
"Grenadians just like to say thanks." Blazie told a news conference yesterday. "Our number one friend is now the United States."
Lossyn Joan, 51, enthusiastically talked of Reagan's visit as she cut slices from a 10-foot long tuna she was selling at the pier.
"We welcome him here," she said. "He saved me from losing my life by the crazy revolutionaries."
At Queens Park, intense preparations were underway to spruce up the
facility for Reagan's visit. A new coat of green paint has been applied to the 6-foot high metal fence that surrounds the park, about the size of two football fields.
White bunting was prepared to be hung around the stands, which were also getting a new coat of paint. On one platform, two dozen school children practiced a dance waving multi-colored wreaths.
Reagan will unveil a plaque at Port Salines Airport and visit St. George's University School of Medicine.
Religious riots in India leave over 100 injured
United Press International
JAMMU, India — Police battled stone-throwing Hindu mobs yesterday, leaving more than 100 people in injured in the second day of clashes sparked by a dispute with Muslims over a holy site, police said.
Nine people have been killed and hundreds wounded in several cities since Friday in violence related to a court decision allowing Hindus to worship at a site claimed by Muslims in the town of Faizabad in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
Militant Hindus marched through the northern city of Jammu, winter capital of the predominantly Muslim Kashmir state, to protest Monday's clashes between police and Hindus demonstrating in support of the
ruling.
The mob threw stones at police trying to stop them. The officers responded with tear gas and baton-charges. More than 100 people, including 53 officers, were wounded in the day-long battle, police said. Twelve of the injured are in serious condition.
At least 200 people were wounded in Monday's rioting.
In New Delhi, 300 miles south of Jammu, a 21-year-old man died from bullet wounds sustained Thursday when police fired on Muslims in the old city area demonstrating over the court ruling. One other person was killed in the shooting.
Police and paramilitary troops patrolled the city yesterday to enforce a curfew.
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