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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...
...fact, it now appears that Coard was soon eclipsed by military leaders, who detained and later killed Bishop. They also executed Foreign Minister Unison
Whiteman, Education Minister JacqueWhiteman, Education Minister Jacqueline Creft, Housing Minister Norris Bain and two union leaders allied with the slain Prime Minister. Coard, meanwhile, has mysteriously vanished from sight...
...about coups and countercoups. First came word that Prime Minister Maurice Bishop's security chief was under arrest for alleging that two Cabinet ministers had tried to over throw the government. But wait. Then the station announced that Bishop, 39, had been deposed by his Finance Minister, Bernard Coard, also 39. No, hold on. Now Coard was resigning so he could clear his name of the "vicious rumor" that he and his wife Phyllis had plotted to kill the Prime Minister...
...reports did confirm what citizens had been gossiping about for months: not only were the charismatic Bishop and the brilliant Coard intense rivals, their wives were barely on speaking terms. More serious matters also might have been at stake. Last month Bishop accepted a $14.1 million loan from the International Monetary Fund. Some factions may have suspected Bishop of agreeing to tone down his socialist rhetoric in exchange for the money, particularly after Bishop's closed-door meetings last spring at the U.S. State Department with a group that included National Security Adviser William Clark...