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Maurice Bishop

prime minister of Grenada

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Grenadan history

  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
    In 20th-century international relations: Nicaragua and El Salvador

    …Movement led by the charismatic Maurice Bishop. Over the next several years the Bishop regime socialized the country, signed mutual-assistance agreements with Soviet-bloc states, and hastened construction of a large airstrip that the United States feared would ultimately be used by Soviet aircraft. The evident incompetence of the New Jewel…

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  • Grenada
    In Grenada: Independence of Grenada

    …(PRG), and named their leader, Maurice Bishop, as prime minister. The new government faced opposition from Western nations because of its socialist principles and the substantial aid it had begun receiving from Cuba, but it embarked on a program to rebuild the economy, which had been left in disarray by…

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U.S. invasion of Grenada

  • U.S. invasion of Grenada
    In U.S. invasion of Grenada: From independence to the October 1983 coup

    …(PRG), and named their leader, Maurice Bishop, as prime minister. The new government faced opposition from Western countries because of its socialist principles and the substantial aid it had begun receiving from Cuba, but it embarked on a program to rebuild the economy, which had been left in disarray by…

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