He was back in Grenada, on vacation with his wife and son, on Sunday, when Cuban President Fidel Castro arrived for his first visit to the island where Cuban and U.S. troops had their only confrontation during the Cold War. After the invasion, U.S. troops completed the airport. When Reagan visited Grenada in 1986, he, too, received a hero's welcome, and he prayed at a sculpture outside the airport honoring the U.S. dead.
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Cassell was a student at St. George's University School of Medicine when Maurice Bishop assumed power in 1979 and until graduation in 1982. He said tension was building even a year before the 1983 invasion. Cassell said he thought Grenada's failed revolution was necessary to get rid of the corrupt government of Eric Gairy, who died several years ago. But he said Bishop installed an overtly hostile government. Today Grenada is democratic.