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...Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week is Jamaica's Prime Minister and free-market fan Edward Seaga. He speaks tonight at the Law School and tomorrow at the Center for International Affairs....or, tap for the weekend is a big, two-day conference on women's history at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library that was Professor of Psychiatry and Medical...
...year-old Seaga, a former Eliot House resident, was elected leader of Jamaica in 1980 and voted back for a second term in December. He has earned international acclaim as an economist for his role in representing Jamaica as governor of the World Bank and in other Third World development banks...
CFIA visiting fellow John D. Forbes, the counselor for political affairs at the United States embassy in Kingston, Jamaica encouraged Harvard to invite Seaga to speak. The prime minister was "delighted to accept," according to CFIA staff assistant Jean McVeigh. "He treats this as a homecoming...
...that to "be a native once meant to be a born thrall." He also notes that "Robert Burns' object in publishing his poems was not to celebrate his oneness with the village of Mossgiel but to make enough money to get off the land altogether and sail to Jamaica...
According to the U.S. embassy in Jamaica, Washington is currently pumping some $200 million annually into the economy. But instead of being funneled into long-term development projects, the money has fueled an inflationary buying binge in Jamaica's unstable economy. "Where we had been fighting over a chicken on market days, we are now importing video cassettes," says Jamaican Management Consultant Brian Young. Inflation has doubled in recent months, to more than 13%; unemployment stands...