Word: dominica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grenada and Haiti. Most of the other governments are aware of, if not always responsive to, a barrage of scrutiny from independent newspapers and opposition parties that extend across a spectrum ranging from conservative monetarism to Maoism with a calypso beat. Political apathy is rarely a problem. On minuscule Dominica (pop. 80,000), for example, virtually everyone seems to tune in to daily radio broadcasts of debates in the 30-member House of Assembly. As a U.S. State Department expert puts it, "We can take solace in the fact that the parliamentary system is fundamental in the Caribbean, and holding...
...horse or burro along narrow footpaths to remote villages. Another week followed in seclusion while the brothers reflected on how much they had learned about faith and Christian living from these simple people. Other friendships have taken the brothers on similar retreats to Appalachia, the West Indies island of Dominica and one of the oldest religious communities in the U.S., the Shakers of Sabbathday Lake village in New Gloucester...
...tiny island nation of Dominica (pop. 80,000) also has great expectations. Last November investors from the U.S. and Dominica opened a $400,000 sports-clothing plant in a new industrial complex. Says Prime Minister Eugenia Charles: "The Reagan initiative might just turn the tide as to whether people invest here or not." But so far it looks as if those and other high hopes about Reagan's Caribbean proposals are unlikely to be fulfilled. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Bruce van Voorst/New York
Reagan proceeded to a two-hour lunch with Barbados Prime Minister John Michael Geoffrey Manningham ("Tom") Adams and the government leaders of four other island nations: Antigua-Barbuda; Dominica; St. Kitts-Nevis; and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (combined population of all five: roughly...
...world of the modern mercenary. The men who bungled the Seychelles coup are the new breed of Hoare's legendary Wild Geese*: would-be soldiers of fortune, usually of right-wing persuasion, who fought for pay in Mozambique or Angola and staged coup attempts in the Camores or Dominica. Most of those involved in the Seychelles operation probably did not know who backed the job. They were simply paid $1,000 each to oust a leftist regime, and promised a further $10,000 if the coup succeeded. But they failed. "They were the fledglings, not the real Wild Geese...