Grenada Protest

An outraged group of over 30 Harvard law students yesterday charged that Tuesday's U.S. invasion of Grenada is an example of "gunboat democracy." Students gathered to discuss and condemn what they perceive as the Reagan Administration's "calculated and brutal subversion" in the small Caribbean nation.

Three Law School students, all Caribbean natives, addressed the crowd, and all three cited the military intervention as a dangerous precedent which could spread to Central America.

"You'll forget about this little island until the next one and the next," Ibirhim Gassama, one of the three students, said

Gassama then rejected the U.S. rationale for the invasion, claiming that the American troops were sent in to restore order to an Island only twice the size of Washington, D.C. in which 50 have been killed because of last week's coup.

Since the troops' arrival, the Grenadian death toll has risen to 900, Gassama reported

Earl McClaron, another speaker, called the Grenadian invasion incident "conflict of Egos." Traditional Caribbean governments, he said, have been subservient to the large powers, "never daring to claim an identity From a U.S. perspective, the Granadians have stepped out of line."

Rally participant Dan Wolfe expressed "a sense of outrage and impotence" at the American invasion and exhorted students to attend tonight's scheduled vigil at city hall.