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...election day, Old Busta and his Jamaica Labor Party had the better of the argument. By the narrow margin of 4,647 votes in a total of 569,781, Manley, after seven years in office, was defeated. Manley won the big towns. But Bustamante was the hero of the sugar cane workers. His party won 26 of the 45 seats in the House of Representatives, returning the aging "Chief" to the premiership that he had held from...
...Bustamante had a plan to improve matters, he was keeping it to himself. But he obviously sees a large role for the U.S., whose tourists already bring $38 million a year to Jamaica. While Manley had conducted a mild flirtation with the Soviet bloc, Busta was now looking steadfastly West. "There will be no neutrality from this day on," he announced. "I will go to the U.S. shortly to make a mutual defense treaty." As an afterthought, the Chief delightedly noted: "The Kremlin has not sent congratulations to me-and they damn well wouldn...
...more sharply caught than Jamaican Premier Norman Manley, 68, who had staked his reputation on federation. He underestimated the strength of his old foe, Sir Alexander Bustamante, leader of Jamaica's Labor Party, which sees federation as a hindrance rather than a help to Jamaican aspirations. At 78, Busta sometimes rambles a bit, dreamily reliving his days of street-level anticolonialism. But his bright young organizers quickly saw that Manley's more-stability, more-investment arguments aimed at the middle class produced less vote power than songs, rhythm and sheer noise aimed at the 93% of Jamaicans...
Freedom story was telling all about But nobody tell it to me; Is only Busta, is only Busta, Is only Busta tell...
Above the waving arms and shuffling feet, Busta would call: "We will be ruled by ourselves, not by Trinidadians, Barbadians, Saint Kittsians or whatever...