The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 28, 1983 - Page 9
Evacuated students
relieved to be home
From The Associated Press
Medical students evacuated from
Grenada described yesterday how they
barricaded themselves in dormitory
rooms and ran to rescue helicopters as
bullets whizzed over their heads.
But a few students also said they felt
no danger from the island's rebel
government before the U.S.-led in-
vasion began.
"I felt sure the military government
that took over felt good about our school
and liked what we were doing," said
Richard Willard, of Bloomfield, N.J.
"They went out of their way to make it
comfortable for us."
Many others, however, said they had
not felt safe since Prime Minister
Maurice bishop was killed in a far-left
coup last week.
"It wasn't an invasion, it was a
rescue," said John Batista, 25, of
Ludlow, Mass., upon his arrival in
Boston yesterday. "I personally didn't
feel secure when I knew they were
executing people downtown."
After the takeover, "there was so
much hostility and turmoil," said
Pamela Lall, of Quincy, Mass., a first-
year student at St. George's University
Medical School.
Maj. Christopher Stroud of the rebel
government visited the medical school
Sunday night and told students they
were safe, but "he wouldn't make
provisions for our safety" if they
decided to leave, she said.
. C-141 transport planes brought more
than 340 Americans home Wednesday
night and yesterday, and more were
expected to arrive today at Charleston
Air Force Base in South Carolina.
The students were evacuated
moments after the compound was
secured by American forces late
Wesnesday, making their way through
sporadic gunfire about 100 yards across
a beach and through the surf to waiting
helicopters.
"My husband and I and several
others in our group had to hit the sand
at one point because we were under
fire," siad Tracy McGrahan of Lincoln,
Neb.
None of the students was injured in
the escape, which was made along with
some other Americans from the area.
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Grenada when U.S. troops invaded Tuesday, is reunited with her mother
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takeover of the Caribbean outpost by
the Castro government.
WHEN THE attack began, ad-
ministration officials had estimated the
number of Cubans in Grenada at about
600, mostly involved in constructing a
9,000-foot runway which Reagan had
charged could be used by Soviet
military planes. Later, the number was
put at more than 700.
But yesterday, White House
spokesman Larry Speakes said the
number of Cubans on the island when
the invasion began had been "upwards
of 1,000 . . . It was a combat engineer
battalion there, commanded by a
Cuban colonel."
Earlier yesterday, the House Foreign
Affairs Committee approved 32-2 a war
powers resolution limiting Reagan's
hand in Grenada. The resolution would
require U.S. troops now fighting in
Grenada to be brought home 6 days
from Tuesday.
At. U.N. headquarters in New York,
the Security Council was to resume
debate on a resolution condemning the
United States for the invasion.
In London, Secretary-General
Sbridath Ramphal of the Common-
wealth - the Britain-linked group of
nations of which Grenada is a member
- denounced the American operation
as "flagrant aggression" and called for
the U.S. troops to be replaced swiftly by
a Commonwealth or purely Caribbean
force.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
said Britain might consider such a
request.
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base was found and that the operation
thwarted a planned Cuban takeover of
tthe island.
POUNDING artillery fire could still
be heard at the Point Salines airport
Thursday night. The shelling was to
Mhead off a possible counterattack,
Marines told a contingent of 12 repor-
ters flown to the island.
The U.S. forces were also strafing
positions with four or five A-7 Corsair
Jet aircraft, said Army Lt. Col. Fred
Ackers in a briefing on the island.
SIX HUNDRED Cuban soldiers and
200 Cuban civilian prisoners were being
held in an encampment on a hill
overlooking the airport, the reporters
were told.
Armed Cubans who had been holding
out at Richmond Hill prison, in the
steep green hills east of the harborside
capital, St. George's, were overrun by
attacking troops Thursday, 2% days af-
ter the U.S. invasion began, the Pen-
tagon said..
A SECOND St. George's strongpoint,
the Grenadian army headquarters at
Fort Frederick, was captured Wed-
nesday, the sources said, confirming
earlier reports by a Barbadian radio
station.
Gen. Hudson Austin, Marxist head of
the island's military junta, had been
believed to be at Fort Frederick. But
on Thursday U.S. intelligence sources
in Washington said Austin was holding
hostages on the southern part of the
island.
The sources, who would not be iden-
tified, said they knew neither the
nationality nor number of hostages.
Hundreds of Americans remain on
Grenada, many of them students at a
medical school near its southern tip.
AS THE Grenada invasion dragged
through its third day, the officially
reported U.S. death toll rose to eight.
American military leaders
acknowledged that their units encoun-
tered tougher resistance than expected.
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for a forum sponsored by the Ann Arbor
chapter of the Michigan Robotics
Research Circle.
Automating will allow Michigan's in-
dustries to compete with other states,
Smith said.
Auto industry consultant Peter Van
Hull agreed with Smith. "The question
of labor is a moot point," he said. "It is
the wrong thing to look at. Doing
nothing is the worse thing - it is the
road to disaster."
SMITH SAID it was impossible to
estimate how many jobs might be
created by the robotics revolution.
"It is easier to give an idea of how
many will disappear," he said. "We
must first develop high technology.
Then there are cultural problems.
People become threatened with the
idea of high technology."
The purpose of the forum - last
night's was the second in a series - was
to advance robotics research and
education and industrial technology in
the Detroit metropolitan area.
Economics Prof. Frank Stafford told
the audience that this country must
remain competitive with other nation's,
such as Japan.
"The competition is very rapid. If we
don't make the transition, we will
become a nation of exporting raw and
agricultural materials," he said.
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