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Back in Grenada, Bishop told colleagues in his New Jewel Movement that he wanted to test Washington's intentions. He talked of opening a dialogue with the U.S. and toned down his anti-American rhetoric. In response, according to officials both in Washington and in some of Grenada's neighboring islands, Cuba encouraged the harder-line deputy, Coard, to push Bishop out. But this effort spun wildly out of control...
...inviting international dialogue with South Africa is, according to one Afrikaner, "like trying to share a jewel between a whale and a pig--there can be no meeting place...
Apparently the officers who run the island's 2,000-man army were fearful of Bishop's popular appeal and his dominance over the ruling New Jewel Movement party. In his place they established a 16-member ruling "Revolutionary Military Council" composed entirely of army officers. Its first decrees banned demonstrations, closed schools and all but essential businesses indefinitely, and imposed a four-day 24-hour curfew. Violators, Austin warned, "will be shot on sight...
...company's headquarters are in New York City, Kirby operates out of his father's wood-paneled gold-carpeted office in a 175-year-old white clapboard house in Morristown, N J The family owns 43% of Alleghany stock, and Kirby once called IDS the "crown jewel of [our] business affairs. He may resist parting with that jewel at anything less than a royal price...
...climbed the 12-ft. wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn...