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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...
Last year's squad dominated the national squash scene, winning the nine-man, the five-man, and all three divisions of the singles national championships. "We have as good a chance as anyone else to win the Nationals [again]," said Fish...
...Paul Scoon, the once ceremonial representative of the British Queen in the Commonwealth nation, was running the island as Governor-General. With a British lawyer at his side, he announced the appointment of a nine-man "advisory council" that will help administer affairs in Grenada until a new government is elected, presumably under a democratic constitution. No one could say when that might be. The council, composed of non-political Grenadians with administrative skills, is to be headed by Meredith Alister McIntyre, 51, now deputy secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. Scoon gave high...
...squash team won three national championships--the U.S. Squash Racquets Association Championship, the nine-man dual match title and the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association Championship. Freshman Kenton Jernigan defeated teammate David Boyum in the final rounds of both tournament championships, thus establishing himself as the finest amateur squash player in the country...
Daniel Ortega, Saavedra, 37, head of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta and a leading member of the ruling nine-man National Directorate, is perhaps his country's most outspoken opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. His two-hour interview with TIME last week was heavy with criticism of what he sees as U.S. attempts to undermine Sandinista rule. Excerpts...