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...essentially a long and stable friendship between Brasilia and Washington. Predicts a Brazilian banker: "Late 1984 could be a crucial period for U.S.-Brazilian relations." Before ending his trip with a brief courtesy visit to Barbados, Shultz will look in on yet another tricky democratic transition, in tiny Grenada (see following story). But with much of the diplomatic pilgrimage still ahead, a senior U.S. official traveling with the Secretary made the expansive claim that "on the whole, U.S.-Latin relations are doing rather well." In a hemisphere astir with the problems of debt, military menace, and the heady allure...
...Thanks be to Papa God and Daddy Reagan!" cried one exuberant islander. Local musicians sang the praises of America to a lilting calypso beat, while other townsfolk sold T shirts emblazoned with the slogan THANK YOU U.S.A. FOR LIBERATING GRENADA. When 653 Americans stepped ashore last week from the Cunard Countess, the first cruise ship to glide into St. George's since the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada last October, they received a rousing welcome. "This," said a smiling taxi driver, "is the invasion we've been waiting for." The island will greet an even more significant invader...
Nicholas Brathwaite, an educator who serves as the body's chairman, told TIME last week that it was committed to holding elections within a year. But Grenada's self-confidence has been so shattered by its recent political turbulence that many citizens seem quite content to postpone elections indefinitely. Their fears have been fanned by the ominous reappearance of the island's most distinguished and distrusted politician, Sir Eric Gairy, 61. Grenada's first post-independence Prune Minister, Gairy ruled the island from 1974 until the bloodless coup staged by Maurice Bishop and his Marxist-oriented...
Washington has already contributed $15 million in arms and equipment to the 500 Caribbean personnel who patrol Grenada. It has also sent down eight-man Army units to train defense forces in the seven Caribbean nations that called for the U.S. invasion. But its work is far from over. At a meeting in St. George's last week, Caribbean leaders unanimously agreed that the U.S. troops would most likely have to remain at least through the elections. "As peaceful as Grenada is today," says Brathwaite, "we cannot, must not, dare not keep our guard down...
...visit to Washington, Thatcher had delivered some of her harshest invective ever against the U.S.S.R., accusing Moscow of conducting "a modern version of the early tyrannies of history." Yet things soon changed. Reagan's invasion, against Thatcher's advice, of the former British colony of Grenada and his heavy counterattacks in Lebanon prompted the British Prime Minister's decision to put more distance between herself and the U.S. President. As early as last summer, Thatcher's aides now admit, she had begun to reconsider her stance on dealing with the Soviets...