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...Crimson dominated its fall competition, outdistancing most of its opponents, talentwise. Harvard will be making a long-distance trip soon--the Crimson heads for Jamaica during spring break--but it is not the trip the team thought it would be making...
...given to many people to have a second chance to lead a nation," observed Jamaica's fiery social democrat Michael Manley last week. He said it with a nice touch of humility, but with forgivable satisfaction as well, for he had just been given exactly that. His People's National Party (PNP), which he led as Prime Minister from 1972 to 1980, thrashed Prime Minister Edward Seaga's Jamaica Labor Party by winning at least 44 of 60 parliamentary seats. In a remarkable show of conciliation, the charismatic and often feisty Manley called on party members to "take this victory...
...conservative, free- enterprise philosophy that had kept Seaga in power for eight years and made him Ronald Reagan's closest ally in the Caribbean. Seaga, who consistently trailed Manley in the polls, had hoped to win back voters by promising to expand social welfare programs and build upon Jamaica's economic stability. He warned that a Manley victory would plunge the country back into socialist chaos...
...drums and bass lines are exactly the same as those in Jamaica," says UB40 vocalist-trumpeter Astro. "But our melody lines are different. They're influenced by English pop and Motown." Adds Campbell, who also provides vocals: "From the time we were kids together, we all only really listened to reggae. I hardly listened to anything else, apart from Motown, Stax, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham...
George Briggs, an administrator in Jamaica, said he feels the program is "very worthwhile." Both participants cite the Mason program as a unique opportunity to establish contacts in the U.S. and in other countries...