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...82nd year without an Ivy men's basketball title, the Harvard squad came with in seconds of its first weekend sweep in years on the road...
...large hand-lettered sign, erected next to an American flag, that summed up the troops' warm feelings toward the island's 110,000 population, many of whom had played host to servicemen in their homes: FARE WELL, GRENADA. THANKS FOR YOUR HOSPITALITY. GOD BLESS YOU. 2/505TH 82ND AIRBORNE...
...military last week took new steps to boost Grenadian confidence. To root out lingering Marxist elements on the island, the Army offered rewards for guns and information. The 82nd Airborne, meantime, conducted target practice for the 396-man Caribbean Peace-Keeping Force that will soon be in charge of Grenada's security...
...holiday celebration, coming in the fourth week of the U.S. military presence on Grenada, signaled that the state of war on the island was coming to an end. The throng of American journalists, once 700 strong, had dwindled to about ten, and 900 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division departed in time to eat their turkey at home. That left 1,200 combat and 1,900 support troops in Grenada, about half the total at the height of the invasion. In Washington, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pledged that almost all the soldiers would be home by Christmas. Said...
...Cubans clearly had lost favor on the island. When a noon crowd watching the police station in Grenville saw 82nd Airborne officers arrive with Godwin Horsford, a well-known Coard supporter, in their custody, the spectators booed Horsford and shouted, "Cuban! Cuban!" Ermyn Campbell, who lived next door to the Cuban embassy in St. George's, recalled that "the Cubans were darling neighbors, very polite. But the U.S. is the best thing for us now. Things were coming so unstuck that I'm sure we were just snatched in time from the devil's own mouth...