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...transition toward civilian rule was supposed to begin this week with the first full meeting of the nine-member "advisory council" that will govern until elections can be held. But that session now seems in doubt since Alister Mclntyre, the Grenadian economist appointed by Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon to head the council, has fallen ill. He resigned his new post, and reportedly entered a Geneva hospital for eye surgery...
Though a 396-man Caribbean Peacekeeping Force is now technically in charge of policing the island, the U.S. military is still very active. Army intelligence estimates that there are 20 to 40 armed men, Cuban or Grenadian Marxists, hiding out in the hills. Two of them fired on a five-man U.S. patrol in the central jungle last week, then fled back into the bush. Army helicopters continued to scour the Grenada shoreline, hunting for enemy boats, while nine-man infantry squads staked out trails in the jungle. Roadblocks are still manned after dark. The sight of well-armed American...
...sure sign that Grenadians were free again was the reappearance of The Grenadian Voice, a local newspaper. Because there were no functioning presses on the island (one should be operational this week), the Voice was printed in Barbados and brought back by plane. The newspaper was started 2½ years ago but was shut down when the Bishop regime imprisoned its publishers. As the Voice pointed out in a front-page editorial, "Ours was probably the first newspaper ever to go out of existence after publishing only one issue...
...economic and military aid. Some of the money is already being spent by the interim government, which has sought to create 1,000 jobs in roadwork, school construction and sanitary maintenance. U.S. Army Engineers have helped with these projects, and are repairing asphalt and rock-crushing machinery used by Grenadian work crews...
Both saw Literary grist in the Waugh-like war in Grenada. Naipaul, says his London agent, came "to take some mental pictures." Thompson, says his New York editor, was after "a Hunter piece." The anecdotes are as lush as the Grenadian jungle. Staying at a nearby hotel is a CIA man who lives like a bat, eating beans and canned Dinty Moore stew and going out only at night. Then there is Morgan, the inmate at the bombed-out mental hospital, who turned up one evening playing piano at the Red Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken...