Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...told colleagues in his New Jewel Movement that he wanted to test Washington's intentions. He talked of opening a dialogue with the U.S. and toned down his anti-American rhetoric. In response, according to officials both in Washington and in some of Grenada's neighboring islands, Cuba encouraged the harder-line deputy, Coard, to push Bishop out. But this effort spun wildly out of control...
...violation of international law and the principles of nonintervention. Professor Abram Chayes of Harvard Law School, who played a key role in the determined and successful effort by the Kennedy Administration during the 1962 missile crisis to get the O.A.S. to provide a legal basis for the blockade of Cuba, said of Reagan last week: "It seems as though the President thinks he is a law unto himself in this situation...
...quick to highlight the cache of Cuban and Soviet weapons and numbers of military men found on the island. Vice President George Bush told TIME last week: "What we had felt about Grenada long before the brutal slaying of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was probably accurate. Cuba has been hyperactive there...
Cohen: No, I think one reason is safety of American citizens. Secondly, there's a very substantial element of direct intervention by an external power, Cuba, and to some extent the Soviets. I think there's something illogical about the argument that you only intervene in those cases where it's extremely difficult...