Word: grenadian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were minor Grenadian fireworks, however, in Washington. Reagan Administration officials vehemently denied a charge by Richard Gabriel and Paul Savage, military historians at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., who claimed that a "significant" number of U.S. commandos were not counted in the official casualty toll. While hotly disputing that assertion, Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch admitted that the names of only 88 of 115 injured servicemen were released, either to protect the identity of special U.S. forces or at the request of the wounded...
Those members of the 82nd Airborne Division who parachuted from helicopters as Grenadian soldiers fired at them from the ground were, quite rightly, granted medals. But so were a number of chairbound bureaucrats who got no closer to the fighting than an office in the Pentagon. While there were 275 decorations for valor, wounds or combat deaths, the Army also honored some troops who remained in the safe environs of Army bases like Fort Bragg, N.C., waiting to be called. Defending the awards, which the other services handed out more conservatively, against charges of "medal inflation," Army Spokesman Major Robert...
...such fighting words may belie flagging spirits. Initially. South Africa justified its offensive by citing the U.S. invasion of Grenada last October (a disingenuous comparison, if only because South Africa's control of Namibia is in direct defiance of a U.N. ruling). Then it resolved to impose a Grenadian-style ban on press coverage of the assault. As a result, said Philip Myburgh, spokesman for the opposition Progressive Federal Party, the operation was attended by "an atmosphere of secrecy and suspicion...
...total of about 1,800 men had vacated the island, fulfilling Reagan's promise that all combat troops would be out of Grenada before Christmas. Still on hand are 150 military police and 150 U.S. support troops (logistics, medical and administrative personnel) to train Grenadian security forces. This modest detachment, along with the 396-member Caribbean Peace-Keeping Force, may well provide a necessary sense of order. "People are so scared, so insecure because of how unsettled things are," says Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General who languished in prison for 2½ years during the regime of former...
...military last week took new steps to boost Grenadian confidence. To root out lingering Marxist elements on the island, the Army offered rewards for guns and information. The 82nd Airborne, meantime, conducted target practice for the 396-man Caribbean Peace-Keeping Force that will soon be in charge of Grenada's security...