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Show Page 40 No - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, October 30, 1988 ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada A cruise ship glows in (AP) the harbor and calypso singers serenade passengers in the Ra-ma- people said, 'Well, Grenada is now But the way it's known is for turmoil and unrest." Andre Cherman da hotel was reThe furbished at a cost of $16 million after the U.S. Army moved out in 1985, but industrial investment is far short of expectations. Five years after the U.S.-le- d invasion stamped out a brutal well-know- 186-roo- m Marxist regime, monuments and wall graffiti are the only direct reminders of the fighting. CaribThis bean island of nutmeg plantabeaches d tions, and 94,100 souls oozes tropical serenity, but political and business leaders acknowledge the world is not convinced Grenada's troubles are over. They had expected a bonanza of tourists and foreign investors. It has not materialized, and frustration is setting in. picture-postcar- n.' paratroopers on Oct. 25, 1983, to oust a military junta that seized power in a murderous coup six days earlier. Soldiers killed leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and 10 others, and as many as 100 bystanders were said to have died in other outbreaks of shooting. Reagan administration off- icials already had been alarmed by Bishop's close ties with the Soviet Union and Cuba. They said the invasion was necessary to protect Americans, including several hundred students at a medical school, and keep Grenada from being used as staging area for communist agression. Fourteen people were convicted of Bishop's murder in post-invasi- "When the invasion happened, a lot of people said, 'Well, Grenada is now said Andre Cherman, immediate past president of the Grenada Hotel Association. "But the way it's known is for turmoil and unrest." The United States, with support from seven Caribbean nations, sent 6,000 Marines and December 1986 and condemned to hang, including former Deputy Premier Bernard Coard and his wife, Phyllis. Three others were convicted of manslaughter and given long pris- well-known- ,'" The Grenadian economy, boosted by U.S. aid, grew by 6 percent in 1987 and the current annual inflation rate, although up sharply from negligible previous levels, is a manageable 4 "When the invasion happened, a lot of restaurant of the Renaissance, but tourists are less numerous than Grenadians had hoped. r Air beaches await tourists Picture-postcar- d open-ai- shuttle his latest Trump card - investment bonanza post-invasio- n on terms. All 17 are appealing and the matter drags on. percent. A surge since in world 1983 bananas and cocoa, Grenada's three main export crops, were an important factor in the expansion, but prices have declined this year. deProspects for long-teruncertain. are velopment prices of nutmeg, The invasion was criticized abroad as an infringement of m Grenada's sovereignty, but Grenadians appear nearly Washington, facing colossal budget deficits, has reduced aid to $10.7 million from $51.9 million as recently as 1985. The unemployment rate is 20 percent and foreign debt is expected to reach a record $71.3 million by year's end. Since the invasion, the United States has poured in $110 million to make Grenada a haven for U.S. and foreign unanimous in support of what they call a "rescue mission" to save the island from anarchy. October 25 now is a national holiday called Thanksgiving Day. "From my perspective, I know it was most desirable, welcome and acceptable for the simple reason I happen to know what we were going through," Prime Minister Herbert Blaize said in an interview. His governing New National Party has been plagued by internal bickering, but Grena-dia- n and U.S. officials say the former British colony is irreversibly committed to democracy. Bishop's party got only 5 percent of the vote in the 1984 election. "I see no stomach among Grenadians for further investment. More millions came from international devel- opment banks and friendly governments, notably Britain, Canada and Venezuela. More than 350 miles of poth-ole- d roads have been repaved, a direct-dia- l telephone network installed, electricity extended to 90 percent of the island and water distribution improved. A $19 million U.S. grant financed completion of the international airport at Point Salines, which had been started by Cuban workers. At the time of the invasion. President Rea Marxist-Le- experiments," said Ford Cooper, charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy. ninist gan said Cuba and the Soviet Union were building it to accommodate military jets. Despite generous UJS. and Grenadian tax breaks, however, only four major U.S. corporations have established operations here since 1983: Johnson & Johnson, SmithKline Beck-ma- n Corp., Abbott Laboratories and Schering-Ploug- NEW YORK (AP) valet parking in upgrading Eastern Airlines' shuttle service, and plans to spend "tremendous amounts of money." Trump agreed Oct. 12 to purchase the profitable Northeast shuttle from parent Texas h. small companies Several Air Corp. for $365 million in cash. If it survives govern- have come in, but at least two have closed. Foreign interests have exhibited an equally disappointing lack of interest in developing Grenada's tourism industry. Of investments, the largest has been the $16 million renovation of the Ramada ment scrutiny and a legal challenge by some of Eastern's unions, the sale is expected to be completed by Dec. 15. The operation, which links New York with Boston and Washington and is used mostly by business travelers, will be renamed the Trump Shuttle. Eastern airThe craft will be redecorated and emblazoned with red, black and gold stripes, and will car- Renaissance, as a U.S. military headquarters before American soldiers were withd drawn in June 1985. which was used blue-silv- U.S.-base- Ramada manages the hotel but Trinidad businessman Issa er ry Trump's name on their Nicholas owns it. The number of tourists staying overnight in Grenada rose by a meager 0.17 percent last year, to 57,406, but the first six months of this year have shown strong improvement. Cruise ship arrivals also have been rising. British Airways started a weekly direct flight to Grenada from London in 1987 and is expected to add another next year, but no major U.S. airline has a similar service and Americans account for only of all tourists. tails. "I want to run an absolutely quality operation," Trump said Friday in a telephone interview. The real estate magnate said he is ready to spend "tremendous amounts of money on each individual airplane" to accomplish his goal. The interiors of the 17 Boeing 727s will be completely y redone using and other leather, carpeting said. materials, Trump high-qualit- I one-four- th f; CRUISE PRICE Museum's broadcast exhibit dates visitors - could catch, without missing a This (AP) news story can tell your age. You're 50 or older if these words move you to memories of staring at a mahogany box and hearing: "Tain't funny, McGee." "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea. Let's go to WASHINGTON drama of beat, the Amos 'n' Andy pouring out of living room windows. A nostalgia-bathe- d exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery recalls the pioneers of radio and television and the programs that generations of Americans tuned in on and grew up with. The exhibit's museological purpose is not to wallow but "to trace the impact of radio and television personalities on American culture" from the turn of the century to the Kennedy-Nixo- n debate. The museum says the inventions of radio and television are about press!" "The house lights are being dimmed. In a moment, the great gold curtain will go up." "Hi-yo- Silver, o, awaaaay!" That, of course, was radio radio in its primest time, the 1940s and 1950s, when every evening cities would fall silent d and a visitor strolling the streets of middle America, on a summer's evening, as important as Columbus' landing in the New World. Radio buffs get to see what they did not need to see photo tree-line- on for 15 minutes graphs of those who widened their world. They get to see the device that created an awful racket when Fibber McGee reached for the door to the hall closet at 79 Wistful Vista, and millions of Americans, at their radios, tensed. What made that noise of a closetful of possessions falling atop Fibber was a chicken-wir- e covered barrel, churned sound effects man. a by Fibber's wife, Molly, would respond, "Tain't funny, McGee," and people everywhere chuckled because it was funny. As for those other catchlines of radio: "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea." That was Walter Winchell, the inventor of the gossip column, signing TOO LOW TO of frenzied ADVERTISE! chatter, his finger clattering a telegraph key between items, and hot news introduced with a barked "Flash!" "The house lights are being dimmed." 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