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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 21, 1984
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such as MIGs or French Mirages--to be based in Nicaragua and have
hinted that the United States would take action to destroy such
planes•.•• Ortega•••said the Reagan Administration is seeking to
convert the issue of jets for Nicaragua into a modern version of
the Cuban missile crisis of October, 1962.
Until the U.S. took action in iate 1983, Grenada was on its way toward be
coming another Soviet client state. The State Department has released some
information, published in the September 18 LOS ANGELES TIMES, on just how
far along Grenada was down the Communist path:
A year before the u.s.-led invasion of Grenada, then-Prime Minis
ter Maurice Bishop outlined in a secret speech his strategy for
establishing a Marxist-Leninist state but warned that the plan
must
remain
confidential lest
it
provoke American
military
ac
tion.
Accordingly, Bishop said, he had invited a number of
"bourgeois" elements to join his government so that the United
States, mindful that "some nice fellas" had joined the revolu
tion, "wouldn't think about sending in troops."
The speech was purportedly delivered before a closed meeting of
his New Jewel Movement on September 13, 1982. American officials
said it is the lead item in a compendium of documents captured on
Grenada that the Reagan Administration plans to release shortly.
In the speech, Bishop emphasized that the alliance with "bour
geois" elements was tactical. "They are not part of our dicta
torship," he said. "They are not part of our rule and control.
We bring them in for what we want to bring them in for."
Meanwhile, no one, it seems, wants to upset the stable "apple cart" in the
center of Europe. A united Germany is still in no one's best interests,
East or West. In early September, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreot
ti, in a speech given at a Communist Party festival in Italy, said: "Pan
Germanism is something that must be overcome. There are two German states,
and there must remain two German states." The remark, made at a time of
warming relations between East and West Germany, caused outrage in Bonn.
Andreotti later explained that he was referring to an incident in Austria,
where protesters called for return to Austria of Alto Adige, a German
speaking area in northern Italy. He said he supports the long-term goal of
German unity. The West German government said it accepted Andreotti
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s ex
planation. But it fooled nobody. The two German states he had in mind were
certainly not Austria and the German-speaking South Tirol (Alto Adige) in
Italy.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau