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...association." But the Peace Corps mission, May says, is as effective a lobby as any. May explains policy decisions simply in terms of options available to the actor. With possible reaction from the Congress and press, "If the President is told that there is a possibility that some other Carribean area will go the way of Cuba, he really has very little chance to react except by asking how many Marines we can get there on what sort of a timetable...
Since the Fourth of July, Fisher has been back to Anguilla five times. The crisis period fell in the first weeks of August, when there was the threat of a military landing by British Marines and a peacekeeping force of Carribean powers. But last-minute negotiations and a fear of real bloodshed prevented such a landing. In any case, St. Kitts has been shown incapable or unwilling to attempt Anguilla's recapture, and the prospects for de facto independence, with the kind of assistance Anguilla now requires, are apparently improving...
Fisher, who has been legal advisor to the predominantly black Carribean island of 6000 since its declaration of autonomy last spring, asked the U.N. for assistance particularly in the form of drugs and gasoline. Auguilla does not want U.N. membership, he said...
...whatever the grubby details of the present fight over the secretary generalship, the fact remains that the Central American and Carribean nations for the first time have discovered strength in unity. For these countries, the fight for Ritter's candidacy has been primarily a nose-thumbing exercise at the United States, and at the big boys in South America who have always tended to look down on them because of the "special relationship" which they hold with the U.S. Also, South Americans consider South Americans to be less "pure" racially because of their large Indian population...
...made in an atmosphere of sweet compromise next January. But the bitter battles over Ritter have been a testing ground for the small member-states of the Western Hemisphere. They may have welded themselves into a bloc which could achieve veto power over OAS policy, especially if more Carribean states join. Jamaica reportedly is moving to join the OAS. It will add one more to this new force in hemisphere politics...