GRENADA: ATTITUDES OF THE GRENADA MEDICAL SCHOOL TOWARD POSSIBLE EVACUATION OF THEIR STUDENTS/STAFF

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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: October 20, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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LJU MODICA, IN) THE ST. GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF
;EO1CINE. NOTING THAT SOME 80 PERCENT OF THE AMERICAN
CITIZENS IN GRENADA ARE STUDENTS OF ~ETAFF AT THE SCHOOL,
uE ASKEO MODICA# NHO HAS BEEN IN CONSTANT CONTACT VIA
TELEX AND PHONE WITH THE SCHOOL, IF HE THOUGHT HIS PEOPLE
,ERE IN DANGER. HE SAID STAFF WAS TRYING TO NOTIFY
E4ERYOtE TC BE SURE THEY 1if EN ABOUT THE CURFEW a BINGE
RADIO FREE GRENADA WAS OFF THE AIR MOST OF THE DAY, SOME
~AIGH1 NOT HAVE GOTTEN NORD OF THE :tHOOTwON?SIGHT CURFEk,),
ON 6ALANCE HE FELT THAT THE QUOTE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY
~:vU?4CIL UNQUOTE WOULD NOT HARM AMERICANS,, SO AS TO AVOID
GIVING THE USG A PRETEXT FOR INTERVENTION, ON THE OTHER
F, U, HE FEARS A M;QLOM1T BACKLASH, WX'FF 'THE'FOFULATION
RI5IUG AGAINST THE SECURITY FORCES AND SOME STUDENTS
CALGHT IN ThE PIDDLE. (FOR EXAMPLE, RADIO FREE GRENADA
IS LOCATED CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL'S GRAND ANSE CAMPUS.)
3. MODICA SAID, AS THE SITUATION EVOLVES, HE WOULD POSE
THE i UESTIUN OF WHETHER QUOTE IT WOULD BE, SAFER UNQUOTE
TO LEAVE PEOPLE Irv PLACE OR PULL THEW OUT. HE IS
60THERED ABOUT THE STUDENTS BEING IN TWO MAIN LOCATIONS
(Qr A3,D ANSE AND TRUE BLUE), 'V ITH THE STAFF EVEN MORE
:SCATTERED. Two POTENTIAL HELD SITES HAVE BEEN
IDENTIFIED, HE SAID, WHICH HE ASSUMED THE USG WOULD HAVI
To SECJRE, THE, FIRST CONVERSATION ENDED WITH MODICA
AGREEING TO CONTACT US AT THE LATEST BEFORE HE LEFT HIS
F.YC OFFICE,
4, THE SECOND CONVERSATION A LITTLE AFTER MIDNIGHT ON
OCTCBEi~ 20 ALSO INCLUDED DAS GILLESPIE AND MYSELF.
N~EODICA DESCRIBED SITUATION AS ONE Ii WHICH STUDENTS
iEt L ON EITHER OF TWO CAMPUSES SOUTH OF CAPITAL CITY
OF ST, GEOHGE'S OR AT THEIR PRIVATE HOMES IN VARIOUS
SUBURBS. THE UNIVERSITY HAS NO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
ARRANGEMENTS WITH INDIVIDUAL STUDENT$., ALTHOUGH IT DOES
HAVE A PLAN FOR ASSEMBLING THOSE WHO RESIDE ON THE TWO.
CAMPUSES AND MOVING THEM TO AREAS DESIGNATED AS POSSIBLE
HELICOPTER LIFT SITES,
5, MCDICA SAID THAT HE OBSERVED SITUPKBSA TO BE SUF.
FICIENTLY TENSE AND THREATENING 30 THAT IF IT WERE SIMPLY
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A RATTER OF EVACUATING THOSE RESIDENT ON CAMPUSES, HE
FELT USG SHOULD MOVE AS QUICKLY AS CIRCUMSTANCES
JICTATEtO, BUT HE HAS A NUMBER OF CONCERNS. FIRST,
RADIO FREE GRENADA HAS REPORTED A MARTIAL. LA 1 DECREE
ESTABLISHING A CURFEW'IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 P,M. MONDAY,
OCTOBER 24, WITH A THREAT THAT ANYONF ON THE STREETS
IS LIABLE TO BE- SHOT, THIS WILL MAKE.COMMUNICATIONS
:11 AND AMONG POTENTIAL BVACUEES DIFFICt UI, IF NOT
I1tFOSSIBL#. SECOND, IN MODICA'S JUDGEMENT, VIOLENT
r'CEACTIQN BY BISHOR'S SUPPORTERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED WITHIN
WEEK OR SU--IF NOT WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, MODICA
DUES NOT BELIEVE AMERICAN STUDENTS ;HILL BE SELECTED
AS TARGETS IN SUCH VIOLENCE, BUT THEY MIGHT BE AT RISK XN
CkOSSFIRE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE NOT ON THE CAMPUSES.
HE REPEATED HI$_OBSERVATION THAT THE GROUP NOW TAKING
PO ER, WHILE VICIOLS AND INHUMAN, 40LLO NOT WANT TO GIVE
THE U.S. AN EXCUSE TO INTERVENE ACTIyELY BY DIRECTLY
T4EATENIvG AMERICAN STUDENTS. (FYI: . ASS 111HIS BEING
L,RAFTED, FIRST REPORT OF, POSSIBLE CUBAN ATTEMPTS TO
GeNERATE SPECTER OF'L.S. INTERVENTION YAS RECEIVED BY
PAR$,) HE WOULD BE CONCERNED THAT A-MOVE TO EVACUATE
AMERICAN CITIZENS WHICH DID NOT GET ALL OF THEM OFF THE
ISLAND WOULD, H0 EVER, TRIGGER VINDICTIVE BEHAVIOR BY
GREi'ADIAN3, ESPECIALLY IF EVACUATION ITSELF RESULTED
IN BLOODSHED,
6. AMBASSADOR STRESSED TO MODICA THAT USG 4NAS REVIEWING
ALL of ITS OPTIONS AND HAD MADE NO DECISION ON ACTION TO
6E TAKEN, BUT WANTED TO BE SURE HOi UNIVERSITY ADHINIS?
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TRATION OFF THE ISLAND SAW THE SITUATION. MODICA ASKED
+riETHEER HE SHOULD HAVE HIS ADMINISTRATORS ON GRENADA
TRY TO TALK TO REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL ABOUT
MOVING OFF-CAMPUS STUDENTS ON TO UNIVERSITY SITES IN
URGER TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY. AMBASSADOR SUGGESTED
THAT THIS MOVE MIGHT BE PREMATURE AND SHOULD BE HELD
IN ABEYANCE FOR THE TIME BEING.
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7. CCmMeNT: MOOICA'S CAUTION PROs A$LY REFLECTS
!.ii'EC . TAINTY OF SITUATION AT THIS STAGE, AND HIS
+IECOGNITION OF DILEi~MA CAUSED BY INABILITY TO ENSURE
3AEo1Y OF ALL sTUDE a1S, INCLUDING !'iHCBE OFF-CAMPUS.
c3. rE HAVE SPOKEN TO, VOA AND THEY ARE, ANNOUNCING THE
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