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...that 160 Grenadian soldiers and 71 Cubans had been killed during the invasion. The Pentagon had given a much lower count of 59 Cuban and Grenadian combat deaths, offering no breakdown on the nationalities. There was agreement that 18 Americans had died. The glaring lack of advance intelligence about Grenada and the haste with which the military was ordered to mount the invasion showed in the fact that the U.S. forces, as it turns out, were unaware that the medical students were located on two campuses, True Blue and Grand Anse, some four miles apart. The soldiers reached 130 True...
...group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit took responsibility for the explosion. In a communique sent to National Public Radio, the terrorists said their motive was to protest U.S. "imperialism" in Lebanon, Grenada, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The FBI believes the group may be linked to nearly a dozen similar bomb attacks on public buildings over the past two years...
...angry is the Kremlin over U.S. action in Grenada...
...Soviet leaders reacted in a very low key. After all, we went to rather extraordinary lengths to make sure their people were evacuated safely. They of course tried to take advantage of the early world reaction, but as the world learned what had been going on in Grenada there was less to take advantage...
...easy to draw a straight line between Lebanon and Grenada. Yet both President Reagan and his critics have managed the feat. For the President, what connects the two points is a malevolent Soviet presence that seeks to turn trouble into opportunity. For the critics it is a trigger-happy, blustering President who turns diplomatic problems into snooting wars...