THE TRAGEDY OF	GRENADA	SINCE OCTOBER 25, 1983

	  While	the media permit Ronald	Reagan to cite Grenada as an
     American success story, the people	of Grenada aren't buying it. The
     following description of what has happened	in Grenada since the 1983
     U.S. invasion was published last year by the Committee for	Human
     Rights in Grenada.

     1.	Removal	of price controls on food, cement, housing, and	other
     essentials	of life.
     2.	Summary	firings	of Grenadian workers without notice, compensation,
     or	legal redress.
     3.	Unemployment now well over 50%.
     4.	Internationalist workers who previously	provided free health
     services deported.
     5.	Uncontrolled escalation	of land, rent, and all prices.
     6.	Free medical, dental, optical care, and	medicines, formerly
     accessible	to all Grenadians, now eliminated.
     7.	Grenadian graduates of Cuban and other socialist-nation
     universities not allowed to practice in Grenada.
     8.	Open prostitution since	arrival	of U.S.	troops.
     9.	Use of cocaine,	heroin,	and crack since	invasion.
    10.	National Women's Organization, National Youth Organization, and the
     Grenada Human Rights Organization eliminated.
    11.	Former institutions now	diminished to point of uselessness include
     independent, progressive union movement; free judiciary; and free and
     independent media.
    12.	Severe devaluation of Grenadian	dollar.
    13.	Grenada, whose economy was praised by the World	Bank and the IMF in
     Spring, 1983, had a $168 million debt as of March 28, 1986.

	  Finally, the Committee reported in April, 1987, that the O.E.C.S.
     (Organization of Eastern Caribbean	States)	occupying troops, trained
     by	the U.S. have returned in force	to Grenada and that they are
     directed by U.S. military officers, usually in civilian dress.
     Ominously,	the Committee adds "Their abuses are well known."

	  The extent and inflammatory nature of	the charges by the
     Committee for Human Rights	in Grenada surely deserve investigation	by
     the U.S. media.

	  SOURCE: BULLETIN OF THE COMMITTEE FOR	HUMAN RIGHTS IN	GRENADA,
     No. 1, April/May 1987, by the Committee for Human Rights in Grenada,
     PO	Box 20714, Cathedral Finance Station, New York,	NY 10025, pp 1-8.