Word: grenadian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, having employed force in such a dramatic and massive way, the U.S. had probably assumed the practical burden of helping shape Grenada's future. Observed a Grenadian lawyer familiar with his nation's tangled politics: "The U.S. can't just invade a nation and then leave. If we are to be healed now in a democratic way, the U.S. must stay." The lesson was all too familiar: it is easier to intervene in a country's affairs than to walk away from its problems...
...fighting was far from over. An additional 400 Cubans, it turned out, plus an unknown number of Grenadian soldiers and militiamen, continued to rattle the Rangers with sniper and mortar fire. They had isolated the medical school's Grand Anse campus from its True Blue buildings. They roamed the back streets of St. George's, pounding on doors, and melted up into the hills, seeking either hiding or sniper sites. They continued to control the capital's small harbor...
While the medical school staff tried frantically to locate the 200 students living off campus, John Doyle of Lindenhurst, N.J., heard banging in the back of the house he shared with four roommates between the two campuses. Grenadian soldiers were battering the kitchen door with gun butts. The students fled to a bathroom, then feared that if they surprised the intruders by being there, they might be shot. Doyle took off his U.S.A.-emblazoned T shirt, walked into the kitchen and found himself facing 30 soldiers carrying AK-47 rifles and dressed in battle fatigues. The soldiers set up portable...
...spraying the hillsides above with percussion fire as loud as hailstones hitting a tin roof. We could feel the hot rush of air and the concussion from the exploding bombs, and yet, directly in front of us, four fishing boats still bobbed idly at their anchors, and a young Grenadian in a red bathing suit walked nonchalantly by as if he were still headed for his afternoon swim. Just then, another explosion, as the gunships made their passes across the hilltops...
...Including Alister Hughes, a prominent Grenadian journalist who had been arrested after reporting on this month's coup for TIME and other publications...