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From: riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Grenada
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 09:47:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 09:47:01 1985
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This is half-rememembered and could be wrong in some or all details, but
here's what I seem to recall.

>1) Have all US combat troops returned from Grenada, if so when?
    Yes.  Some time in the last six months.

>2) Have elections been held, if so when, and who won?
    Don't think so, but I think there are plans.

>3) Is the airport open and what is its capacitiy?
    I don't know if it's open, but last I heard the U.S. was funding its
    completion.  It really was a rather unexceptional tourist facility all
    along.
    
>4) Where would one find out about these things out?
    A half-hour at your public library perusing the New York Times (with
    index) should tell you for sure (or at least as sure as the CIA wants
    you to know... :-) ).  For details and analysis of elections, watch the
    specialist journals like the *NACLA Report on the Americas*.  (NACLA is
    the North American Congress on Latin America, and their *Report* is an
    excellent quarterly written by scholars but readable by laypeople.  It's
    available at all good libraries and newsstands.)  They've already
    printed a good article this year on Sir Eric Gairy, the fellow who used
    to run the place two or three governments ago and aspires to do so again.
    He no longer talks about UFOs as much, but he's just as wacky as ever.

I welcome corrections to the above, but no flames -- I said I was putting
this down from dim memory.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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