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Guernsey then joined the North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, a law firm which was 95 percent Black, he says. "I was one of five white people in the firm." Guernsey says. They sent him to Grenada, a small, politically unstable island in the West Indies, for three years--a tenure that ended when he came to Harvard last September...
...from Barbados' 79,000 to Cuba's 10.3 million, have another special asset that is rare in the developing world. Despite a cruel history of imported slavery, colonialism and harsh exploitation, the fledgling states remain among the most democratically governed in the world. The major exceptions: Cuba, 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...
...Caribbean is a depressing one. Cash debts are staggering: the islands as a whole owe Western banks and governments more than $6.5 billion. In Jamaica (pop. 2.2 million) the $1.4 billion foreign debt is equal to 40% of the country's entire gross domestic product. In Grenada, the Marxist-inspired New Jewel Movement has run up a $17.1 million debt that equals 21 % of the country's annual production of goods and services. Despite largescale emigration from the islands, unemployment has reached rates of more than 30%, with the level approaching 50% among increasingly restive youths. Says...
...President reviewed plans to increase U.S. aid to the eastern Caribbean region to $60 million this fiscal year from $25 million in fiscal 1981. Aides pointedly let reporters eavesdrop as Reagan warned his hosts that the tiny (pop. 108,000) island of Grenada, whose Prime Minister was not invited to the conference, "now bears the Soviet and Cuban trademark, which means that it will attempt to spread the virus [of Marxism] among its neighbors." Then the President got away to relax at the empty nine-room Barbadian villa of Paul Brandt, a furniture manufacturer from Fort Worth. (Colbert...
...candidates, since they would almost certainly be murdered. El Salvador's neighbors are also divided about the election. The Organization of American States last week voted 22 to 3 to back the election and send observers if requested. But the resolution was opposed by Nicaragua and Grenada, which support the leftist guerrillas who are trying to oust the Salvadoran junta, and by Mexico, which favors a negotiated political settlement. Four other countries abstained...