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...slaying more than a dozen people. In the resulting pandemonium, Bishop was led away at gunpoint. That night Radio Free Grenada announced the chilling news that he was dead. He had been executed along with five other officials by the "revolutionary armed forces" under the command of General Hudson Austin...
...been his undoing. For months, Grenada had been rife with rumors of conflict between the Prime Minister and his most senior colleague, Finance Minister Bernard Coard, a doctrinaire Marxist. After a welter of contradictory reports last week, it seemed that Coard had toppled Bishop in a power struggle. General Austin strengthened that impression in a long radio address in which he chastised Bishop for failing to share power with Coard under a policy of "collective leadership...
...dominance over the ruling New Jewel Movement party. In his place they established a 16-member ruling "Revolutionary Military Council" composed entirely of army officers. Its first decrees banned demonstrations, closed schools and all but essential businesses indefinitely, and imposed a four-day 24-hour curfew. Violators, Austin warned, "will be shot on sight...
Grenada's chances of prospering under the junta's control are slim. Austin, 45, is a one-time prison guard with few visible qualifications to head a government. His sole academic credential is a correspondence degree in construction engineering. Though little was known of Austin's political connections, the Reagan Administration was fearful that last week's coup had been inspired by Cuba or the Soviet Union. Grenada lies at the heart of vital sea-lanes, and Administration officials have long claimed that the Soviets plan to turn the is land into a strategic base that...
...festivities also featured a cake modeled after Austin Hall...