Word: grenada
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...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, with...
...almost a week, Radio Free Grenada had kept listeners across the Caribbean on edge with breathless accounts of coups and countercoups among the Marxist rulers of the tiny (133 sq. mi., pop. 110,000) island. Then last Wednesday, what had begun as political melodrama turned into a murderous power play...
Suddenly, say eyewitnesses, truckloads of soldiers roared up and fired on the crowd, slaying more than a dozen people. In the resulting pandemonium, Bishop was led away at gunpoint. That night Radio Free Grenada announced the chilling news that he was dead. He had been executed along with five other officials by the "revolutionary armed forces" under the command of General Hudson Austin...
...added that more Nuclear Free Cambridge supporters would have attended had not other political events, including a speech by Boston mayoral finalist Melvin H. King and a rally against the U.S invasion of Grenada drawn them away...
...armed attack situation in Grenada," Snyder explained...