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...Europe and Asia from some 140 to roughly 360. The U.S., said Nitze, "throughout this period has continued negotiating." As farewell gifts, the Americans presented the Soviets with pocket calculators; the Soviets bestowed lacquered bowls, caviar and vodka. After his departure, Kvitsinsky made a one-sentence statement to newsmen: "The present round of negotiations has been discontinued, and no date has been set for a resumption...
Finally permitted by U.S. military authorities to roam freely on Grenada, newsmen found that even some of the island's ardent leftists were enthusiastic about the American intervention. Former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop had been their hero, and when he was placed under house arrest by extremists led by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard and then executed by a Military Revolutionary Army Council headed by General Hudson Austin, the earlier revolutionaries lost their zeal. Said Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General under Bishop who had been imprisoned after breaking with Bishop's party: "The Americans should feel free...
...embassy officials held out against the eviction orders, demanding to remain until they were certain that more than 650 Cuban construction workers and military personnel being held by the U.S. Army were being properly treated and until arrangements for their return to Havana were complete. Army troops kept U.S. newsmen from entering the Cuban embassy. Reporters learned, however, that during the invasion U.S. paratroopers had vandalized the Cuban ambassador's one-story residence on a promontory near the uncompleted Point Salines airport. Furniture was smashed, windows broken and an obscene message written on the wall. Libya's ambassador...
...more than a week the Administration had tantalized newsmen and members of Congress with hints I about what Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam called a "treasure trove" of captured Grenadian documents that would put to rest any questions about U.S. motives for the invasion. Late last week the State Department finally released 196 pages of its vast stockpile. The documents did not quite represent the "smoking gun" needed to substantiate President Reagan's claim that Grenada was being transformed into a "major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy." But the papers did offer solid evidence that...
Olivas' "report" did little to dispel doubts about the official government version. Amadeo Seno, the commission's deputy counsel, told newsmen last week that he had found a number of contradictions in Olivas' testimony. Four hours after Aquino was killed, Seno noted, Olivas had described the assassin as being 5 ft. 6 in. tall. But the physician who performed the autopsy later reported that Galman was 5 ft. 9 in., or ¼ in. taller than Aquino. Galman's height is a crucial clue in determining whether he was tall enough to walk behind Aquino...