Word: trujillo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...About 160 U.S. Army troops, including more than 100 members of the 7th Special Forces Group from Fort Bragg, N.C., are stationed at a military regional training center near the city of Trujillo on Honduras' northern coast. Last week the Green Berets were putting 600 Honduran corporals through their paces and getting ready to start a tough, twelve-week program for 1,000 members of El Salvador's newly created Bracamonte Battalion...
Each in his own way vividly symbolized the two contrasting views of the State of the Union. President Reagan led a standing ovation for the heroism in Grenada of Sergeant Stephen Trujillo, an Army Ranger from Denver, "who reminds us what it means to be Americans." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, moderator of the Democratic response to Reagan, cited the death in Beirut of Marine Corporal Edward Gargano from Quincy, Mass., as tragic proof that the Administration's Lebanon policy is wrongheaded...
...Trujillo will soon get a silver star from the Army for repeatedly rushing into the flaming wreckage of three U.S. helicopters that had crashed during the Grenada invasion (one, hit by ground fire, had smashed into the other two). A medic, he ignored enemy shooting and the possibility of imminent explosions of the chopper fuel tanks to pull at least three comrades to safety...
...Trujillo, 23, studied at the University of Colorado for two years before joining the Army in December 1979. After the invasion, according to his father, Trujillo called to say that he had "done some pretty good things in Grenada." His parents did not learn the extent of his heroism until they heard Reagan on TV. The sergeant was sensitive to charges that he had been used for political purposes: "I was incredibly embarrassed. I felt very unworthy. You can say I was used. But the President was in no way jeopardizing my integrity." As for war and this combat...
...eight plots, none ever carried out, to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro, as well as a bizarre scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 and a failed attempt on the life of Premier Patrice Lumumba of the Congo. The pro-Soviet Lumumba was killed in 1961, a year after the CIA attempt, by rivals acting on their...