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...time of the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, one of the Reagan Administration's strongest Caribbean backers was Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados. Among Washington's strongest re- gional critics was Adams' chief opponent, former Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Since then, Adams has died and been replaced by Bernard St. John, but the U.S.'s Caribbean policy has remained a controversial subject on the island...
...poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense of oil-importing poor countries around the world...
...landed in the head office in Houston a year ago, his nine-year-old son had never finished a single grade in the same school in which he began it. Johnson Wax moved Ed Furey, 30, from Racine, Wis., to New York to Chicago, where he is re gional office and warehouse manager, all in the past ten months - and Furey's son went through kindergarten in three different schools as a consequence. Last year Union Carbide moved 1,200 of its executives, compared with 600 only five years...
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