Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Relations worsened when Bishop announced in November 1979 that Fidel Castro would help Grenada build a new "international airport," ostensibly to aid the island's tourist business. A Cuban construction brigade, using 85 pieces of Soviet heavy construction equipment, arrived in December to start the work. The airport's 10,000-ft. runway would be compatible with both tourist-laden jumbo jets and long-range military aircraft...
...power," argued House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois. "It is in our hemisphere. We are beginning to draw some lines here. How much of it do you take before you say, 'This is enough'?" Trent Lott of Mississippi agreed: "We don't want another pro-Castro Marxist government down there." Senate Democrats were far harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan's new interventionism," Thomas Eagleton of Missouri said it represented "a trigger-happy foreign policy," and New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted: "I don't know that you restore...
...Janice Castro...
...supplies. In recent months, however, the Cubans have been urging the Grenadian government to seek accommodation with the U.S. to help ease tensions in the region. Last week they seemed concerned that the latest events in Grenada might give Communism a bad name in the Caribbean. Cuban President Fidel Castro condemned the "savage" killings and said that no revolutionary doctrine or principle justified "the physical elimination of Maurice Bishop and the outstanding group of honest and worthy leaders who died...
...felt that that was enough of a justification. I think another justification is that it does seem as if some Cuban intervention was imminent. It's possible to conclude that Prime Minister Bishop was assassinated by the Cubans and the Soviets. They might not have envisioned Bishop being killed-Castro might not have a wanted that-but there was certainly an arms buildup. The fact that there were clearly hundreds of tough Cuban combat troops makes a clear threat to the small democratic states in the Caribbean. There's also a very strategic interest to us. Each individually would...