Word: jamaicas
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...slim, eloquent man, Lawson is aware that the dreadlocks he wears may compound the probability that police will stop him. But he has no intention of cutting them, though they have no religious significance to him as they do for the Rastafarians of Jamaica; he just does not like combing and fussing with his hair. "I'm very accustomed to doing what I want to," he says. So he will continue his walking, and if police arrest him under a new law, he is prepared to take the necessary legal journey back to the Supreme Court...
...press conference Seaga detailed the changes his country has undergone since he and his moderate Jamaica Labor Party took office two years...
Seaga's policies, which are aimed at activating the private sector, have received full support from the Reagan administration. Jamaica currently receives large amounts of and from the United States and under the Administration's proposed Caribbean Basin Initiative it would receive even more aid and more favorable trade agreements...
...opposing Manley, the United States overlooked Jamaica's spotless human rights record and healthy democratic system and concentrated on maligning her economic policies. Manley puts it succinctly: "The fact that the recourse to destabilization tactics seemed necessary throws us back again in the nexus of imperialist relations, their intolerance of ideological and economic independence of any kind." His story is but another testimony to industrial nations' failure to address the worsening world economic crisis...
...solve immediate problems, but the long-term picture requires more far-reaching help. Figures such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and World Bank Head A. W. Clausen agree that restoring a healthy world economy will depend on long-term sustainable growth; this means that nations such as Jamaica must become more equitable participants in the international economy. To this end, the United States must give up its tunnel vision on proposals aimed at bolstering Third World nations. The miracle of the marketplace can't do it alone...