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From: miller@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Grenada rescue & weakness
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 02:27:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 02:27:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucdcs!miller    Oct 30 01:27:00 1984

On the subject of Grenada:

>As for the students, I would
>not question protecting their safety, but I have yet to have heard
>anything even suggesting they really were in danger.  Listen to the
>students themselves.
>David Rubin

I *have* listened to the students, have you?  Just last Thursday, Bob Dean,
one of the medical students rescued from Grenada, spoke here on our campus.  He
told frightening stories of 24 hour SHOOT ON SIGHT curfews, no drinkable water
supplies, rationed food, military patrols by Cuban "construction workers"
carrying Soviet made AK 47 rifles, executions of political opponents and their
relatives, and a "government" which told the world the students were free to
leave while at the same time denying them access to all forms of air or sea
evacuation facilities.  They had to boil what little water they had in storage
to drink in order to stay alive.
Fortunately, we have a president that believes in freedom and a military that
is willing to die so that others may enjoy what, through their deaths, they
lose. Too many people have died because of the mistakes of leaders like Walter
Mondale and Neville "Peace in our time" Chamberlain.  History, anyone?

A. Ray Miller
Univ Illinois