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...friendly troops to the nearby island-nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines moved one local songwriter to tuneful protest. Adams' aid to his neighbor enabled St. Vincent to send its own security force to suppress an uprising on outlying Union Island. Now, almost five years later, that Barbadian intervention still upsets many in the usually placid eastern Caribbean. Adams is sensitive about the matter too. Boots has been banned in Barbados...
...airport in Barbados, one sweltering day last week, Air Force Captain Keith Graham leaned across the counter before him. He was wearing camouflage fatigues that looked as though he had slept in them. In his best parade-ground voice, Graham bellowed, "Anybody want to go to Grenada?" An old Barbadian woman who was trying to sweep up the debris of pizza crusts and paper cups gave Graham a toothless smile, but she offered no answer...
...Star-Spangled Banner, and mounted a small platform to receive a military salute. Suddenly a loud bang, followed by several more, made his security men jump. Smoke drifted over a friendly crowd of thousands, many shielding themselves from the sun under brightly colored umbrellas. It turned out that the Barbadian army had wanted to give the visiting head of state a proper 21-gun salute, but was somewhat handicapped because it had no working cannon. So soldiers were detonating sticks of dynamite in an open field near by. The blasts set fire to tall grass, and hoses...
...island of Grenada, whose Prime Minister was not invited to the conference, "now bears the Soviet and Cuban trademark, which means that it will attempt to spread the virus [of Marxism] among its neighbors." Then the President got away to relax at the empty nine-room Barbadian villa of Paul Brandt, a furniture manufacturer from Fort Worth. (Colbert's home was too small...
Anne Ives, as the 72-year-old victim Rebecca Nurse, is much too weak of voice; and she behaves more like a queen-dowager than a Salem villager. But Sarallen makes believable the somewhat comic Barbadian Negro slave, Tituba, who confesses to "conjuring" to save her neck...