THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINS GRENADA

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• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
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• Publication Date: October 25, 1983
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DATE October 25, 1983 9:05 AM cRY Washington, DC
The President Explains Granda
7HE PRESIDENT: On Sunday, October 23rd, the United
States received an urgent formal request from the five member
nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States to
assist in a joint effort to restore order and democracy on the
Island of Grenada.
We acceded to the request to become part of a multi-
naftional effort with contingents from Antigua, Barbados:,
Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the United
States. I might add that two of those, Barbados and Jamaica,
are not members of the Organization, but were first approached,
as~we later were, by the OECS and asked to join in that
undertaking, and then all of them join unanimously in asking us
to participate.
Early this morning, forces from six Caribbean democra-
cies and the United States began a landing, or `landings, on the
Island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean. We have taken this
decisive action for three reasons.
First, and overriding importance, to protect innocent
lives, including up to a thousand Americans whose personal
safety is, of course, my paramount concern.
Second, to forestall further chaos.
And third, to assist in the restoration of conditions
of law and order and of governmental institutions to. the Island
of Grenada where a brutual group of leftist thugs violently
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