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From: jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Grenada
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 20:46:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 20:46:20 1983
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From the Boston Globe (11/2/83):

Builder Denies Airport for Military

Reuter

  London - A British company heading the construction team for Grenada's
new airport dismissed US claims yesterday that the site was being developed for
military purposes by Cuba and the Soviet Union.

  Plessy Airports, whose $9.9 million contract is underwritten by the British
Government, listed 11 facilities needed at a military airbase, and said none
of them was being installed at the airport at Point Salines.
...
  A Plessy spokesman, Tony Devereux, said in an interview that the airport
conformed to international civil avaition and was designed to facilitate
tourism for Grenada.

  "There's not the least doubt that, if the British Government had been unhappy
about the nature of the contract, it would not have allowed the Export Credits
Guarantee Department to underwrite it", he said.
(end)

But the right says: "what about the 1500 Cuban soldiers?"
The facts respond: "you mean the 784 mostly combat engineers?"
The right says: "but what about all the weapons?"
History responds: "looks like they needed more"
The right counters: "but what about the airport?..."
The right concludes: "Taken individually, Reagan's fact are a pack of lies.
But you have to put them together to see the BIG picture. And besides, the
truth is a Soviet plot."

Does anyone know if we are officially war criminals yet? Our Security Counsel
Veto stopped a condemnation there. Anyone know if the General Assembly or the
OAS have voted?

--Jim Bray	UUCP decvax!bbncca!jbray
		ARPA jbray@bbncca