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...forces refused to go along. In the course of an unusually acrimonious discussion, a vocal contingent from the African states of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mauritius claimed that the U.S. action might encourage the South Africans to invade neighboring countries on the pretext of protecting its nationals abroad. In response, Dominica's Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, who had stood at President Reagan's side when he announced the Grenadian operation, replied, "They ask, 'Who's next?' Well, that's just what we asked ourselves." By week's end, however, the leaders had apparently agreed...
...invasion force of 6,000 paratroopers, Army Rangers and Marines had dwindled to about 2,500 men of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., and up to 500 support personnel. The 400 soldiers contributed by Grenada's neighboring island nations (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent) took up routine police duties, patrolling harbors and checkpoints. A task force of six Navy ships, headed by the aircraft carrier Independence, resumed its interrupted mission to relieve U.S. Marines in Lebanon, now carrying troops that had unexpectedly been tested in battle. Declared President Reagan: "Our objectives have...
...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 or squadrons of aircraft. All you need is small arms, ammunition, machine guns. That's what they have a lot of. So I think it was a serious military buildup. Clearly not enough to stop...
Vancouver was the last assembly run by Potter, 62, a Methodist minister from Dominica whose special concern is poverty and oppression in the Third World. He is expected to retire in 1985, after 13 years in office. His replacement will be chosen by the 145-member central committee elected last week, with the Rev. Heinz Joachim Held of West Germany, 55, as its new presiding officer. For Held and Potter's successor, the council's delicate balancing act will undoubtedly continue without letup. -By Richard N. Ostling
...Grenada and Haiti. Most of the other governments are aware of, if not always responsive to, a barrage of scrutiny from independent newspapers and opposition parties that extend across a spectrum ranging from conservative monetarism to Maoism with a calypso beat. Political apathy is rarely a problem. On minuscule Dominica (pop. 80,000), for example, virtually everyone seems to tune in to daily radio broadcasts of debates in the 30-member House of Assembly. As a U.S. State Department expert puts it, "We can take solace in the fact that the parliamentary system is fundamental in the Caribbean, and holding...