Word: grenada
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...strategic interests rely heavily on Peru and Ecuador. This jungle is no Grenada. A parable: If Bosnia were situated on an island off the coast of Israel, perhaps the U.S. government would take a stronger interest in its plight...
...been wildly distorted by partisanship. Democrats who insisted George Bush had to seek congressional approval to start the Persian Gulf War -- as he finally did, successfully -- contend that an invasion of Haiti would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively approve. Republicans who backed those invasions even though Congress was never consulted in advance now insist the plain sense of the Constitution is that the President must not send troops into combat on his own hook...
REAGAN -- Grenada: "There were then about 1,000 of our citizens on Grenada, 800 of them students in St. George's University Medical School...
REAGAN: "((Grenada)) was a Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied as a military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time...
...President reversed himself, granting asylum hearings aboard U.S. ships. One month later the President announced that no boat people would be resettled in the U.S., but only in neighboring regions. The only problem was that Panama's President Endara revoked his pledge to take 10,000 new refugees, and Grenada and Antigua followed, taking their combined 4,000 beds with them. Currently the only haven for refugees is the 12,500 bed facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Of course it is already filled to capacity...