After a bloody takeover, a U.S. force steams into range
For almost a week, Radio Free Grenada had kept listeners across the Caribbean on edge with breathless accounts of coups and countercoups among the Marxist rulers of the tiny (133 sq. mi., pop. 110,000) island. Then last Wednesday, what had begun as political melodrama turned into a murderous power play.
Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, 39, was languishing under army-imposed house arrest in the capital of St. George's when a mob of supporters burst past the guards and carried him outdoors. To shouts of...
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