[maica]

"...and it prevented a Soviet base on the island capable of landing their aircraft, weapons, and supplies. "

The Soviets with Cuban 'workers' were also building a sub pen on the southern end of the island. I am not sure how close to operational state it was in 1983. It was under construction, along with the airport runway when I was there in 1979. Grenada would have been such a strategic location for patrolling and controlling sealanes to the Panama Canal and to the Gulf of Mexico.

Our leftist press was so busy siding with the communists in central America that they never wanted Americans to know what President Reagan had really accomplished and why he did it.

[doug from upland]

Thanks much for the additional insight.