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...GEORGE'S, Grenada--Under a dazzling Caribbean sun, President Reagan yesterday retraced the steps of American invasion forces that ousted a radical Marxist government from this tiny island 27 months ago and vowed the United States also "must help those struggling for freedom in Nicaragua...
Reagan flew here to honor the 19 servicemen killed in three days of fighting that forced Cuban troops from Grenada and led to formation of a democratically elected government...
Where popular support for democracy exists, as in Grenada, the United States can sometimes supply the necessary force. But unless a people is politically mature enough to institute and sustain democracy on its own, we cannot gain anything by meddling in their internal affairs--other than, perhaps, ameliorating their misery a little by cautious and limited measures...
Former Washington Redskin Bryant J. Salter helped evacuate Americans from Grenada during his term as a U.S. Consul in a nearby Carribean Island. Before that, he was the first Black foreign service officer assigned to South Africa...
...weeks, and while some political analysts view the attacks as the opening moves of the Reagan Administration's annual bid to Congress for increased contra funding, Ortega claimed to hear the sounds of war. U.S. officials, he said, "are trying to create conditions like those they created to invade Grenada...