Grenada Crisis Evacuations Reported By Amateur Radio Says Students Trapped
A Lorain amateur radio operator quoted students at St George's Medical College on Grenada pleading to see U S forces as fighting raged. Reports said water was cut off, food limited, with snipers around the campus and gunships overhead as U S troops invaded.
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Chronicle- Telegram
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Heitzenreiter
Mark Baretella
St. George’s Medical College
Baretella
Associated Press
Bush vows to not be deterred by Lebanon bombing
Vice President George Bush, wearing helmet and flak jacket, toured the Beirut Marine base ruins after a bombing that killed 219 U S servicemen and wounded about 70. He called terrorists insidious cowards and said U S foreign policy would not be dictated by terror. Bush met Lebanon's Amin Gemayel at the presidential palace after the visit, with security tight around the ruins and the peacekeeping force.
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Beirut
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Lebanon
Barbara
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Reginald Bartholomew
U.S
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Kelley
Amin Gemayel
Ibrahim Tannous
Gemayel
Wife of Marine in Beirut bombing learns husband alive
Kim Oliver, wife of Lance Cpl. John Oliver, learns her husband is alive though possibly wounded after the Marine headquarters bombing in Beirut. She fears for him and waits for confirmation as details unfold. their infant daughter Ashley, born Sept. 27, awaits his return. Page A-4.
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Lance Cpl
John Oliver
Beirut
Sanday
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Lorain
Visitors Bureau gains independence from county control
Lorain County Visitors Bureau approved a one year contract to operate independently from county government while remaining on the county board of commissioners. The bureau will begin receiving bed tax income and hire staff starting October 1, with at least 78000 collected from the 3 percent hotel tax since June. Commission members will stay on the 10 member board for now amid disputes over publicity and governance.
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Lorain
Lorain County Lodging Association
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LeMasters
Bureau
County Administration
Pat Brown
Brown
Sixth Street
Broadway
New York
Nabakowski
Palace Theater
Grenada Invasion Escalates As 82nd Airborne Enters
U S Army's 82nd Airborne joined the Grenada invasion in a push to fight armed Cubans. Fidel Castro vowed no surrender while Defense Secretary Weinberger warned of higher casualties as nearly 2,000 troops clash. Pentagon reports two killed and 23 wounded since the assault began, with Cuban and civilian deaths cited by Jamaican PM Seaga and officials describing armed Cuban workers at large.
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U.S. Army
82Nd Airborne Divsion
Grenada
Caribbean
Fidel Castro
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Pentagon
Edward Seaga
Invasion of Grenada Kills Six U S Servicemen Officials say six U S troops dead
Pentagon sources report six U S servicemen killed in the Grenada invasion with eight missing and 33 wounded. Castro acknowledges Cuban casualties and promises no surrender as probes on captured airports and pockets of resistance continue. About 30 Soviet advisers have been seized, and 700 Cubans remain still resisting on the island.
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Grenada
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