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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Evacn of Cdns in Grenada blocked?
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Date: Sun, 13-Nov-83 07:06:28 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 13 07:06:28 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Nov-83 03:25:53 EST
Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto
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The Canadian External Affairs Department is actively investigating the
possibility that the US and/or its Caribbean allies blocked the Cdn
gov't's efforts to evacuate 29 Canadian nationals a few days before the
invasion.  The investigation is officially confirmed by the department.
Unofficially, "some observers speculate that [the flight] may have been
deliberately blocked because of fears that a successful evacuation would
undermine Washington's justification for the invasion."
(Toronto Globe & Mail, Nov. 12, page 1)
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If true, this interference endangered the lives of 29 Canadian nationals,
people who had been guaranteed safe passage from the island by the leaders
of the coup.  Trapped on the island, they may have been caught in fighting.
Imagine the ramifications if several had been killed by US firepower AND
the above interference had been proven... particularly after the Cdn aid to
6 US nationals in Iran.

p. rowley, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada