Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those correspondents and one of those photographers were positioned to give U.S. readers a unique and extraordinary view of the Grenada invasion from start to finish. Sensing that the invasion was imminent, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich and Photographer Claude Urraca joined five other journalists in persuading a fishing-boat captain to ferry them to Grenada. They arrived in the capital, St. George's, well before the invading forces reached it. Diederich's exclusive report of the U.S. assault as viewed from behind the defenders' lines, with Urraca's pictures, is part of the special section...
...Magnuson. Reported by Douglas Brew/Washington, Bernard Diederich/ St. George's and William McWhirter /Bridgetown
Shortly after taking office in 1981, the Reagan Administration told Bishop that his ties to Cuba posed a threat to the peace of the region. As relations with the U.S. worsened, Grenada's links with the Kremlin grew more open. Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard visited Moscow in May 1980, where he signed a treaty giving the Soviets permission to land their long-range reconnaissance planes, the TU-95, on Grenada when the new airport was completed...
Bishop's moderation may have 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...
...Kenneth W. Santa. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Bridgetown