Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious that there were deeper reasons for the American action. High among them was the fear that the Cubans, and by extension the Soviets, were establishing a military outpost in the Caribbean that could serve as a way station for ferrying Cubans to Africa and Soviet arms to Latin America. The U.S. was 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...
Also at the heart of the U.S. action was a message to both adversaries and allies that the U.S. was willing to use its military power in resisting Cuban and Soviet influence. "This was not taken as a signal about anything else," said Shultz, adding, "Of course, those who want to receive a message will have to receive...
...action, and a partial record of how it evolved came to light last week. Timed with inadvertent irony as American troops were invading Grenada, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston released tapes and transcripts of two meetings between J.F.K. and his top aides at the start of the Cuban missile crisis 21 years...
...coast of South America. What raised eyebrows was that Bouterse, a self-styled Marxist, directed his wrath not against the U.S. but against his ally Cuba. Last week he abruptly expelled Havana's Ambassador, giving him six days to get out of the country, and suspended all Cuban cultural and education agreements. Bouterse's explanation: "The leadership of the Suriname revolution is convinced that a repetition of developments in Grenada should be prevented here...
...probably telling the truth. Bouterse may have feared that he would surfer the same fate as his friend Maurice Bishop, the Marxist Prime Minister of Grenada who was deposed and killed. Bouterse hinted that he suspected Cuban complicity in Bishop's overthrow. Perhaps too, Bouterse, who seems motivated primarily by a desire to maintain his repressive regime, did some political recalculating in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He may have concluded that leftist revolution is no longer the wave of the future in the Caribbean and that he should make himself less obnoxious...