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...brother Crown Prince Abdullah. Fahd, in his 70s, overweight and diabetic, suffered a stroke in November. The Crown Prince, while more of a traditionalist and an Arab nationalist than the King, is not likely to divert Saudi Arabia from its pro-American course. Meanwhile, Britain ordered the deportation to Dominica in the Caribbean of Mohammed al Mass'ari, a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia's royal family. Saudi Arabia had threatened to curtail trade, including military purchases, unless London silenced al Mass...
...French threatened to scuttle the public-works plank of the GATT agreement unless Germany accepted the banana plank. The Germans refused, insisting on their right to import bananas at will, guaranteed by the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Back in the islands, the Prime Minister of the island of Dominica, Dame Eugenia Charles, has warned that if her people can't make a living on bananas, they might take up cocaine...
...Caribbean troops--the first to agree to serve as an invasion backup force--arrived in Puerto Rico for two weeks of training with hundreds of U.S. Army Special Forces troops. The 17 countries, some announced previously, are: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahama Islands, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, Guyana, Israel, Jamaica, The Netherlands, Panama, St. Vincent, Trinidad and the United Kingdom...
...that Panama has reneged on an agreement to do so. Some refugees might end up traveling farther than they initially bargained for: Washington has approached several nations in West Africa, including French-speaking Benin and Senegal, about harboring Haitians. Administration officials say the Caribbean islands of Antigua, Grenada and Dominica have agreed "in principle" to set up safe havens...
...That's not how things are done," said DominicA. Nwasike, professor of history and a member ofthe search committee, about Counter's refusal ofthe offer. "I'm sure that he had accepted theoffer." Nwasike added that he was skeptical aboutthe "distinction" Counter made between acceptingcandidacy and accepting...