Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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, 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...
Cohen: The fighting has lasted several days. It's taken 3000 of the best soldiers this country has to occupy the island and it's real. There were only 600 Cuban construction workers on the island, but they seemed to have orders to flight to the death, which is not how construction workers usually operate. So yes, I'd say it was quite a serious Cuban military buildup-serious in the context of the eastern Caribbean. We have to remember that to destabilize a microstate like Dominica or a larger one like Jamaica, you don't need fleets of ships...
...felt themselves under serious threat. There was a 24-hour curfew, orders to shoot to kill, a government that just murdered a number of people in cold blood, they 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...
...time invasion went to press, the administration had a strong arsenal of reasons under its belt: the danger to American citizens and the formal request for aid. When the forces arrived in Grenada, and turned up several hundred Cubans and 30 Soviet military advisors, it was dubbed a lucky break and officials declared that the size of the Cuban presence, earlier referred to in an offhand manner, came as surprise. One can only remember, with a certain strong sense of embarrassment, the statement by the Russians that they were "invited in" to Afghanistan and Poland...
...assertion that the size of the Cuban presence was underestimated seems a bit ingenious especially since we know from recent experience that the CIA can pick up even the most indistinct voices in airliners thousands of miles away. But the memory of recent experience does not seem to be the Administration's strong point. Last week's U.N. vote to censure the Grenada invasion failed 11-1. The veto vote belonged to Assistant United States Delegate to the United Nations Charles M. Lichtenstein. One wonders what would happen if the Russians were to come up with tapes proving that...