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...President Reagan, the tiny Caribbean island (pop. 110,000) represents a threat to the national security of the U.S. The President lashed out at Marxist-led Grenada last month before releasing classified satellite photos of a new international airport being built with Cuban aid. The island's government has been headed by Prime Minister Maurice Bishop since the repressive regime of Sir Eric Gairy was overthrown in 1979. To assess the threat, TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter traveled to the 133-sq.-mi. island. His report...
...Marxist revolution stopped for Easter weekend, then Easter Monday, then went back to work just long enough for another national one-day holiday to watch a cricket test match before taking the weekend off. That was after Grenada declared a "national alert," announcing that a U.S. invasion was imminent. But while U.S. ships were supposed to be unloading counterrevolutionaries onto the beaches, the People's Revolutionary Government was still encouraging neighboring Trinidad's yachtsmen to hold their annual regatta there. When the Trinidadians asked, naturally enough, if their boats might not run into the U.S. Marines, they were...
...unhappy Egyptians, Ethiopians and Mozambicans. The Soviets can usually be found at the beach, in snorkeling gear and Baltic bathing costumes. The island's favorite Russian so far is a chauffeur with steel teeth. He has been nicknamed "Jaws," of course. The Soviets have given the people of Grenada a one-engine crop sprayer and imported two cream-colored Mercedes sedans for themselves. But they are a bit slow on the draw when it comes to parting with nickels on the beach. They have not won the hearts and minds of the straw-doll and coconut vendors, who complain...
Last week the countries of the Caribbean, 27 nations in all, from such tiny islands as Grenada and St. Lucia, to such coastal powers as Venezuela, Mexico and the U.S., took a long step toward improving the region. At a meeting in the old Spanish colonial port city of Cartagena, Colombia, a majority gave initial approval to two treaties that should help encourage cooperative action toward a cleanup. One of those pacts governs all types of pollution; the other deals specifically with oil spills. Negotiated under the auspices of the U.N. Environment Program, the treaties are relatively toothless declarations...
...Grenada, Guernsey was assigned to provide legal services for the Black community. This put him in the difficult position, he says, of having to earn the trust of the Blacks while facing the censure of the dominate white minority on the island. "It was the first time I had ever been alienated and ostracized by the white established community," Guernsey says...