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...Jamaica, the conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Seaga discovered shortly after its election last October that it desperately needed $100 million in operating funds. Seaga passed the word to a group of visiting U.S. and Venezuelan businessmen who were looking at ways to revive the island's near bankrupt economy. Shortly thereafter, Jamaica received a $50 million grant from a confidential Venezuelan government discretionary fund that may total as much as $500 million. An additional $50 million from Venezuela is now being funneled into the island, earmarked for road and airport development, housing, water supply and electrification...
...there are cases of wolves in captivity attacking human beings.' I said: 'Of course I was talking about wolves in the wild. I would never use a tame wolf. Take a wild wolf, put it in there, and when the wolf becomes tame, you replace it. [The Greater Jamaica Chamber of Commerce is in stitches.] "Now what I am telling is a true story...
...week will announce, to the surprise of no one, that he hopes to remain the 105th mayor of New York for four more years (read eight). He is endorsed by his own Democrats and has already gained most of the Republican organization's endorsements as well. What the Greater Jamaica Chamber of Commerce told him in the afternoon, the Yale Club would tell him that night?that he is a sure thing. Nor did Koch tell the Yale Club anything different than he told the Greater Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, except for talking more about financial issues. Otherwise...
Among other things, the Law School has increased its clinical education program, which focuses on field work. Under the program, law students actually practice, either in simulated situations or in a legal aid center in Jamaica Plain...
...army captain and a Jamaican native, he founded his band, the Wailers, in 1964, but did not achieve commercial success until more than a decade later. Marley, whose song I Shot the Sheriff was made a hit by Eric Clapton in 1974, was an outspoken advocate of Rastafarianism, a Jamaica-based political-religious cult embracing a variety of ideas and trends: reggae music, marijuana use, a return to the "promised land" in Africa and belief in the divinity of the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia...