Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislators, opposition leaders, government officials-stressing over and over that "a coalition of good will" has come to power in Washington. In Mexico, he told an airport gathering that U.S. officials would be "coming down and doing more listening" than in the past. The response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. As Jamaica's Governor-General Florizel Glasspole told Young: "With Africa, you've scored many a bull's-eye. It's given the U.S. a new look in the eyes of the world...
...meeting in Kingston, Jamaica with a group of Peace Corps workers, reported Prendergast, "young men and women swarmed around Young as if he were a new Bobby Kennedy." Sounding one of his favorite themes, he urged his audiences to work for nonviolent solutions to racial problems: "Our African policy has grown out of sensitivity to the problems of blacks in the U.S. Blacks and whites in the South used to fight each other and both stayed poor. When we stopped, we got a Southern white President and a black ambassador...
Young said his mission was to "put together a comprehensive approach" to Caribbean policy and not to come on like a dollar-wielding "Big Daddy". But increased aid will follow-especially for Jamaica and Guyana. Relations with both countries have been strained in recent years, partly because of the leftist convictions of Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica and Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana, and partly because of the two leaders' independent stance in pursuing good relations with Cuba. As Young assured a Guyanese audience, "past difficulties" would not stand in the way of "common agreement...
...faced a tough challenge at her very first stop-the beautiful but economically blighted island of Jamaica. Prime Minister Michael Manley, a fiery socialist, has hinted at a capitalist U.S. plot to overthrow him. But Manley was the soul of propriety when he greeted Rosalynn at the airport and said that her husband's emphasis on human rights offered "great encouragement...
Rosalynn also showed her concern for Jamaica's problems by making an emotional visit to two social service centers in a Kingston slum. Crowds lined the narrow streets as she walked three blocks from one center to the other, and an eleven-year-old girl broke through the guards, hugged her and traipsed along with the President's wife beneath the tropical...