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Reggae music star Jimmy Cliff scrawled out his message--"love and justice"--on record albums of an estimated 250 fans yesterday afternoon in the Coop. The Jamaican singer, in town for a concert at the Orpheum Theater, told onlookers he enjoys signing albums because it "psyches me up for a performance...
...forget Toots and the Maytals, at the Orpheum Nov. 21 at 8. What's a Maytal? A Jamaican washing machine? Then again, in the '60s, people were asking what a "Drell...
...after Director Parker spotted him in his seventh-grade class at P.S. 201. " 'You,' he says, 'I wanna talk to you,' " is the way Cassisi remembers it. "I thought he was the new dean or somethin'." Paul Murphy, from a South London Jamaican family, fit the role of Leroy because he likes to box with friends. Making the movie meant sacrifices, however. Paul missed out on the neighborhood cricket matches and could grab not even a minute to watch the pros...
...stern effort to halt violence that has been causing a death a day in Jamaica, Manley's government took the extreme step of declaring a state of emergency. This move gives the Jamaican Security Force broad and tough powers to maintain law and order. Said the Prime Minister: "We have witnessed a type and scale of violence unique in our history, terrorist activities previously unknown to us which have caused fear and concern to every decent Jamaican citizen." Security forces, he insisted, had found evidence that terrorism was to be deliberately stepped up this week...
...Ambassador Sumner Gerard has protested that the CIA is not in any manner trying to upset the Jamaican government, even though Washington is less than happy about Manley's warming friendship with Fidel Castro. Gerard's denials were reinforced last week by William H. Luers, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs, who told a House subcommittee that allegations of U.S. interference were "totally false." If American citizens are engaged privately in "destabilizing" activities, Luers added, "we are prepared to cooperate fully with the governments of the area to bring them to justice...