The World : Last GIs to Leave Grenada
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The State Department announced that the remaining 250 American troops and 400 military personnel from other Caribbean nations will begin a phased withdrawal from Grenada in mid-April. Spokesman Bernard Kalb said the withdrawal will be completed by mid-September. The American troops led forces from Caribbean nations in an invasion of Grenada on Oct. 25, 1983, after the assassination of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop by radical elements of his government.
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