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Maroc Maroc - WN.COM - Americas - 21/Jan 18:19

From the archive: Reagan’s outrageous invasion

In October 1983, Grenada’s prime minister Maurice Bishop was overthrown and executed by hard-line Marxists. Ronald Reagan invaded the Commonwealth island to depose the military council led by General Hudson Austin. The slight notice given to Margaret Thatcher was considered a significant snub. Correspondent Peter Pringle reflected on the chaos. It boggles the mind to learn, in this age of satellites and microwave communications, that the Foreign Office’s outpost in Grenada does not even own a telex machine. But so it was, when Whitehall wanted to send word of the US invasion to our man in Grenada, John Kelly, that the coded message – a jumble of letters, figures, question and exclamation...

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