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From: tpkq@charm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Cuba and Grenada
Message-ID: <161@charm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 17:00:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  5 17:00:57 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Nov-83 06:38:39 EST
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	I have seen no evidence posted to this network or in any
newspaper to support the contention that the Cuban government sponsored
the coup which overthrew the Grenadian government.  In the period
between the coup and the invasion, the Cuban government described its
relations with the new regime as "very strained," and the Cubans denied
its request to send troops to repel the invasion.
	Speaking to reporters in Barbados, Don Rojas, Maurice Bishop's
press secretary and the highest ranking member of the toppled regime to
speak since the invasion, said that before he was killed, Bishop had
asked him to tell the world that Cuba had nothing to do with the
regime's internal dispute and that no outside intervention was
warrented.
	Rojas also reported that Bernard Coarde, who he says led the
coup, refused to receive the Cuban ambassador, Julian Torres Rizo, who
was concerned about the detention of the Prime Minister by the Coarde
faction.