Grenada: Coup leader calls on US to 'come clean' on Bishop

For nearly three decades, Grenadians have wondered what happened to the body of their first left-wing prime minister, Maurice Bishop. Now, two weeks after being given an early release from prison, Bishop's former deputy Bernard Coard has left no doubt that the United States is well aware of the location of the charismatic leader, whose short-lived People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) came to a bloody end in a palace coup engineered by Coard himself in October 1983. Coard, appearing on a television program Tuesday, made a direct appeal to the new U.S. president, Barack Obama, to bring closure to Grenada's bloody period that began in 1979 when Bishop and Coard and members of the then New Jewel Movement (NJM) overthrew the Eric Gairy government in the Caribbean's first successful coup. "You are the new administration - you had no part in this," Coard said, addressing Obama. "You have an opportunity now to start the slate clean. What happened in the [Ronald] Reagan administration - don't let that hold you back. Make the effort, come clean."