Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have reappeared, diverting the principals' energies at a particularly volatile, complicated moment for U.S. interests abroad. Lebanon is threatening to explode again in the wake of the devastating attack on U.S. Marines. Combat is also intensifying in Central America, drawing the U.S. more deeply into local conflicts. A coup in Grenada by the radical left resulted in a U.S. fleet's being moved toward that Caribbean island last week, to be ready to protect U.S. citizens there. All the while, relations with the Soviet Union remain edgy: the moment of truth in arms control is only weeks away...
Bishop seized power 4½ years ago in a bloodless coup that deposed the eccentric and repressive regime of Sir Eric Gairy. Nominally a Marxist but at heart a pragmatist, Bishop did not establish a democracy. But he did satisfy most citizens with social tranquillity, rising exports and a host of public works, including 45 miles of new roads. Many of the projects were financed by Cuban and other Soviet bloc aid. Lately Bishop had even been talking of elections. Last spring he visited Washington for meetings with U.S. officials in an effort to tone down the antagonistic rhetoric between...
...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 would threat en the shipment of U.S. oil supplies. In recent months, however...
...United States sent nearly 2000 Marines into Grenada after being asked by neighboring nations to intervene following a coup in which Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and three of his Cabinet members were killed, the Reagan Administration said this week...
Gassama then rejected the U.S. rationale for the invasion, claiming that the American troops were sent in to restore order to an Island only twice the size of Washington, D.C. in which 50 have been killed because of last week's coup...