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Subject: Re: WhGrenada WHO?!?!?! - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 22:30:04 EST
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uok!lllenoir    Oct 30 17:11:00 1983

cont'd from response # 3



I'm sorry this response is all broken up.
We had a system down while I was in the
middle of writing it.


It seems that when we got to Grenada some of the
people shooting at us where the 500 or so
Cuban workers who were there extending
an airstrip.. and it turns out that the
Cuban military was there in numbers far
in excess of previous reports had indicated.
On top of that there were about 30 Soviet
advisors on the island.

I think from this and other evidence it
is a safe assumption that Grenada was
well on it's way to becoming a Cuban
stronghold from which to extend Cuba's military
presence into South America.



There is one other reason why I personally
feel the invasion was justified. Grenada was
under control of a Marxist dictatorship
which was not there by the choice of the
people. That in itself is bad.. but the
U.S. doesn't need another communist strong-
hold in this hemisphere. By nipping Grenada
in the bud now while it was still easily
controlled, we probably saved ourselves
alot of strife and hardship in the future.



                   Lionel Lenoir
              (University of Oklahoma)