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Almost completely ignored by voters was the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement, the remnant of the revolutionary New Jewel Movement, which seized power from Gairy in 1979. The M.B.P.M., headed by former Industrial Development Minister Kendrick Radix, was named after Maurice Bishop, the charismatic New Jewel founder who was assassinated by a hard-line faction of his leftist party six days before U.S. troops arrived on Grenada. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members for the murder of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers was stalled last week by procedural wrangling...
...hastily cobbled together from three rival Grenadian parties only last August. During the low-key, three-month campaign, Blaize and his supporters emphasized the themes of economic development and safeguards against the abuse of power, while Gairy's G.U.L.P. ran under the slogan "Americans must stay forever." New Jewel loyalists tried to whip up sentiment over alleged CIA interference in the elections, and staged rallies honoring their murdered leader...
...ousted directors: James Bere, chairman, Borg-Warner; the Rev. Raymond Baumhart, president, Loyola University of Chicago; William Johnson, chairman, 1C Industries; Jewel Lafontant, senior partner in the law firm of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz; Robert Malott, chairman, FMC Corp.; Marvin Mitchell, former chairman, CBI Industries; Paul Rizzo, vice chairman, IBM; Thomas Roberts Jr., chairman, DeKalb AgResearch; Elaine Yarrington, former executive vice president, Standard Oil of Indiana. The resigning directors: Weston Christopherson, former chairman, Jewel Cos.; Vernon Loucks Jr., president, Baxter Travenol Laboratories...
...Eric Gairy, 62, the country's first Prime Minister following independence in 1974, will make a comeback. He was ousted after five years of increasingly brutal, eccentric and corrupt rule. Gairy's successor, Maurice Bishop, was deposed by a hard-line faction of his leftist New Jewel Movement and murdered six days before U.S. troops arrived. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members accused of the deaths of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers resumes this week...
...does abide by the terms of the treaty, its successors could easily reverse or rewrite it. China has proved to be singularly unpredictable in years past, with its violent and frequent pendulum swings from left to right. Clearly, the Communist nation has much to gain from protecting its capitalist jewel: the per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong is 18 times that of China, and already the 400-sq.-mile colony supplies its colossal neighbor with up to 40% of its entire foreign-exchange earnings. Even those practical considerations, however, could be swept aside during a leftist backlash...