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  Maurice Bishop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bishop was well-educated and had an extensive background in studies of the fl power movement.
In October 1983, Bishop was overthrown and executed at Fort Rupert, St.
Bishop had planned to build a large, controversial international airport on Grenada with Cuban assistance, which was eventually completed with U.S. assistance several years later.
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 Thuc_Consecrations
Ngo was Titular Bishop of Saesina, 1938-60, Archbishop of Hué, Viet Nam, 1960-68, and Titular Archbishop of Bulla Regia, 1968-1984.
Consecrated a bishop on 01/22/1977 at xxxxx by xxxxx, a bishop of the xxxxx.
Consecrated a bishop on xx/xx/19xx at xxxxx by xxxxx, a bishop of the xxxxx.
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 MAURICE BISHOP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Maurice Bishop (29 mei 1944 - 19 oktober 1983) was een politicus uit Grenada.
Bishop vertrok in 1963 naar het Verenigd Koninkrijk om rechten te studeren.
Bishop werd in 1976 in het Huis van Afgevaardigden gekozen, en werd leider van de oppositie.
www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/M/Maurice_Bishop   (275 words)

  
 Maurice Bishop (Famous Grenadian)
Maurice Bishop, the son of Rupert and Alimenta Bishop, was born in Aruba on 29th May 1944.
In January of 1973, Maurice Bishop took the lead at La Sagesse in St. David's of the large gathering protesting the locked gates to the beach at Lord Bronlow's estate.
In 1976, Maurice Bishop was elected to the House of Representatives and became leader of the Opposition.
www.mts.net /~emanuel1/shopping/bishop.htm   (580 words)

  
 Maurice Bishop - Wikipedia
Maurice Bishop wurde als Sohn grenadischer Eltern in Aruba geboren und zog mit seiner Familie im Alter von sechs Jahren nach Grenada.
Maurice Bishop's speeches, 1979-1983: a memorial volume, edited by Chris Searle.
Artikel aus der ila und der Avanti zu den Ereignissen auf Grenada
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Bishop   (298 words)

  
 Maurice Bishop
Maurice Bishop, the son of Rupert and Alimenta Bishop, was born in
Bishop married a nurse, Angela Redhead, in 1966.
Bishop's charisma and his democratic sensibilities, though, proved not to be a substitute for wielding authority and leadership.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDbishop.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Grenzeloos, radicaal en links blad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bishop en Radix zagen dat er veel onvrede was tegen het beleid van Gairy, maar er was geen organisatie die het verzet tegen de regering leidde.
Een ander verschil was dat Maurice Bishop voor de opbouw van de ekonomie het bondgenootschap met de binnenlandse bourgeoisie wilde handhaven, terwijl Coard bedrijven wilde nationaliseren en een strakker belastingsysteem wilde invoeren.
Hoewel Maurice Bishop het persoonlijk oneens was met dit besluit, ging hij als staatshoofd op tournee naar Bulgarije, Tsjechoslowakije en Hongarije.
www.grenzeloos.org /archief/wp2html.php?worddoc=./archiefmappen/Grenzeloos_nummer_14/BISHOP16   (1417 words)

  
 Bernard Coard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winston Bernard Coard (born August 10, 1944) was a Grenadian politician who was part of the coup d'état that overthrew Maurice Bishop's government in 1983.
The 1976 elections in Grenada were highly suspect, and accusations that the leader of the Grenada United Labour Party, Eric Gairy, had ensured that all election officials were GULP party members, and that the ballots had been tampered with.
Deciding that action needed to be taken to remove Maurice Bishop from power, Coard enlisted the support of General Hudson Austin and thus the army, and on October 19, 1983, overthrew the government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Coard   (918 words)

  
 Maurice Bishop - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George's along with a number of his supporters after a military coup d'état, led by Bishop's erstwhile friend and Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard.
Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83
Maurice Bishop speaks to U.S. workers: Why the U.S. invaded Grenada
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /maurice_bishop.htm   (273 words)

  
 MAURICE BISHOP FACTS AND INFORMATION
Maurice Rupert Bishop (May_29, 1944 – October_19, 1983) was a Grenadan politician.
Bishop was well-educated and had an extensive background in studies of the fl_power movement.
He was widely believed to have been cheated out of an election victory by Gairy's supporters several years before leading the revolution against Gairy, who was out of the country addressing the United_Nations at the time.
www.palfacts.com /Maurice_Bishop   (184 words)

  
 Rev. Maurice De St. Palais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An heir to a substantial fortune, Maurice was born on the 15th of November 1871, at La Salvetat in the south of France.
Maurice De St. Palais was a descendent of a long line of crusaders.
On the 15th of June 1844, he accompanied Bishop Quarter on a tour of the Canal area, which was the initial leg of an introduction to the boundaries of the new diocese.
saint-dennis.org /history/sdh9.asp   (912 words)

  
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Bishop will have to talk with him." Cross said: "And, of course, I knew he was referring to his boss, David Phillips." (186) (178) The committee ascertained that the cover name of Doug Gupton was used at the JM/WAVE station by a former CIA employee.
Bishop was in the organization but I had no personal day-to-day open relationship with him.
But whether Veciana's contact was really named Maurice Bishop, or if he was, whether he did all of the things Veciana claims, and if so, with which U.S. intelligence agency he was associated, could not be determined.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /bishop.txt   (1365 words)

  
 The Grenada revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In his 1983 Hunter College speech, Bishop mockingly paraphrased a State Department report, bringing down the house: "Grenada is a particular threat as an English-speaking, Black revolution that could have a dangerous influence on Blacks in the U.S."-which indeed it did, and on progressives worldwide.
Bishop and his wife were shot dead in a small and isolated hut in the forest.
While Bishop's government and life were cut short tragically by extremists from both ends of the political spectrum, he remains a light of hope for socialists who see his participatory and egalitarian regime as a perfect example of how a workers nation can be arranged.
www.paradise-inn-carriacou.com /grenada_revolution.php   (3886 words)

  
 Maurice Bishop and "The Spook" Reporter Hal Hendrix
To Fonzi's detailed summary of reasons that David Atlee Phillips was indeed the Maurice Bishop that Veciana saw with Oswald, there is a more recent addition.
Terpil said he had run Bishop through the agency's file system in the CIA's Miami headquarters to find out who this Bishop character was.
It is therefore of the greatest significance that Terpil puts Bishop/Phillips in the presence of Hendrix, and that Veciana puts Bishop in the presence of Lee Harvey Oswald.
www.webcom.com /~lpease/collections/hidden/bishop.htm   (674 words)

  
 Index Bi-Bl
On the night of Nov. 18, 1973, Bishop and his companions were severely beaten by members of the Mongoose Gang (the notorious parapolice aids of the regime of Sir Eric Gairy) in full view of the police and held without medical attention in appalling conditions.
Bishop emerged as leader and, subsequently, prime minister.
Bishop was being held under an Army-imposed house arrest when throngs of his supporters pushed past the guards and carried him outdoors, after which they proceeded to Market Square and then to Ft. Rupert, a Grenadian Army compound.
www.rulers.org /indexb3.html   (9031 words)

  
 Human remains in Grenada could be Maurice Bishop
Bishop on Oct. 19 and marched on the operational headquarters of the People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) at Fort Rupert.
Maurice Bishop, Foreign Minister Unison Whiteman, Education Minister Jacqueline Creft and Housing Minister Norris Bain were then executed.
In September 1995, Bishop’s daughter Nadya led a four-member team of American scientists, including a forensic pathologist and an archeologist, on an unsuccessful search for her father’s body.
www.finalcall.com /international/m_bishop.htm   (687 words)

  
 MAURICE BISHOP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Bishops returned to Grenada in 1950 and Maurice, then six years-old, was enrolled in Wesley Hall Primary School.
In his final years of secondary education, Maurice decided he wanted to study law and when he left Presentation College in 1963 also he worked for a few months at the Registry in Grenada before leaving for England.
Maurice Bishop will remain one of Grenada’s Fallen National Heroes and has rightfully earned his place amongst the many outstanding Men and Women.
www.spiceislander.com /profile_of_maurice_bishop.htm   (454 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Maurice Bishop
This is a list of Chief Ministers and Prime Ministers of Grenada Chief Minister Eric Gairy (1954-1956, 1958-1960) Herbert A. Blaize (1960-1961) George E. Clyne (1961) Eric Gairy (1961-1962) Herbert A. Blaize (1962-1967) Prime Minister Eric Gairy (1967-1979) Maurice Bishop (1979-1983) Hudson...
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The Invasion of Grenada, known to US forces as Operation Urgent Fury, was an invasion of the island nation of Grenada by the military forces of the United States of America and several Caribbean nations.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maurice-Bishop   (881 words)

  
 Maurice_bishop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Maurice Bishop Speaks, 1979-1983: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979-83
Maurice Bishop's Imperishable Legacy : Advertisements for cruises and holidays to Grenada describe this Caribbean island as a place where "nothing much ever happens".
A tool for our liberation : Maurice Bishop, the assassinated leader of the revolution in Grenada, was a great revolutionary leader, and his speeches and writings, his struggle not only for revolution in Grenada, but also in solidarity with revolution in Cuba, Nicaragua, Africa, and around the world are recorded here.
books.mysic.ca /Author/Maurice_Bishop   (289 words)

  
 Maurice Bishop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Maurice Rupert Bishop (May 29, 1944 - October 19, 1983) was a Grenadian polician.
His New Jewel Movement otherthrewthe Eric Gairy regime in 1979 and hebecame Prime Minister of Grenada.
Following a US -led invasion, Operation Urgent Fury, in 1983, Bishop was executed at Fort Rupert, St.George's with a number of his supporters after a military coupd'état, lead by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, against hisgovernment.
www.therfcc.org /maurice-bishop-116866.html   (120 words)

  
 The Militant - 10/26/98 -- Why Washington Hated The Grenada Revolution
October 25 marks the 15th anniversary of Washington's invasion of Grenada, one week after the murder of the country's prime minister, Maurice Bishop in a counterrevolutionary coup.
From 1979 until his death, Bishop headed a revolutionary workers and farmers government that stood as a shining example to toilers throughout the Caribbean and beyond.
Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, backed by other NJM leaders and the overwhelming majority of the island's workers and farmers, resisted this counterrevolution and attempted to reverse it.
www.themilitant.com /1998/6238/6238_30.html   (873 words)

  
 Monthly Review: Maurice Bishop speaks, the Grenada revolution, 1979-83. - book reviews
It is therefore altogether fitting and proper that American friends of Maurice Bishop have put together in this volume a selection of his public addresses as prime minister and political leader.
We hear Bishop acclaiming, with justifiable pride, the social and economic achievements of the revolution.
But essentially they reveal Bishop not so much as a "scientific" socialist but rather as a West Indian populist, emotionally close to the folk-people, passionately concerned to raise them to the status of new, responsible citizens in a new social order.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_v36/ai_3287217   (1121 words)

  
 Maurice Bishop Biography / Biography of Maurice Bishop Biography Biography
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Maurice Bishop (1944-1983) was a leader of the New Jewel Movement which proclaimed the independence of Grenada in 1974.
Maurice Rupert Bishop was born May 29, 1944, on the island of Aruba, Netherland Antilles, of immigrant parents, Rupert and Alimenta Bishop.
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 Maurice Bishop - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His New Jewel Movement otherthrew the Eric Gairy regime in 1979 and he became Prime Minister of Grenada.
Following a US-led invasion, Operation Urgent Fury, in 1983, Bishop was executed at Fort Rupert, St.
George's with a number of his supporters after a military coup d'état, lead by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, against his government.
en.freepedia.org /Maurice_Bishop.html   (118 words)

  
 Biography: Antonio Veciana
Veciana admitted that Bishop and the Central Intelligence Agency had organized and funded the Alpha 66 attacks on the Soviet ships docked in Cuba in 1963.
Bishop believed that Kennedy and Khrushchev had made a secret agreement that the USA would do nothing more to help in the fight against Castro.
Bishop felt - he told me many times - that President Kennedy was a man without experience surrounded by a group of young men who were also inexperienced with mistaken ideas on how to manage this country.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKveciana.htm   (2135 words)

  
 The Very Best Books : Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Less than 20 years ago Maurice Bishop led a popular revolution there that lasted for three and a half years and involved Grenada's working people of town and countryside in transforming their society and lives.
Bishop and the people of Grenada wrote an imperishable chapter in world history.
Maurice Bishop, the assassinated leader of the revolution in Grenada, was a great revolutionary leader, and his speeches and writings, his struggle not only for revolution in Grenada, but also in solidarity with revolution in Cuba, Nicaragua, Africa, and around the world are recorded here.
www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/0873486129   (428 words)

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