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...Joshua, Joshua," shouted the crowd of 75,000 at an agricultural fair west of Kingston last week, as the tall, ramrod-straight politician with the familiar features began to speak. Many Jamaicans once regarded their former Prime Minister, Norman Manley-who died in 1969-as a kind of Moses who helped lead them to the promised land of independence ten years ago. Now they see his son as an appropriate successor. Addressing the massive rally. Prime Minister Michael Manley, 48, set forth what has become a chief theme of his young government: "What freedom really confers is the opportunity...
Manley has set himself no less a task than that of freeing his countrymen from the colonial assumption that "somebody else is going to do it all for me." When workmen in Kingston recently balked at cleaning drainage ditches, Manley himself took up a shovel and began to dig. "All sorts of people who had refused to work later joined me," he recalled. "But if I had gone down in jacket and tie and made a great speech about the dignity of labor, they would have said: 'That's for the birds,' and they would have been...
...victim of a particularly vicious Cuban-sponsored terrorist campaign in the early 1960s, would be a major coup for Cuba. It achieved a minor one last week, when Dudley Thompson, a Jamaican Minister of State, turned up in Havana to discuss trade and, possibly, resumption of airline service between Kingston and Havana...
There is a report that telephone service is operating in Wilkes-Barre and Kingston. You can make local to local calls, but you are urged to use discretion because only 4800 lines are operating...
Contributing Editor James Grant, who wrote the story, chose a less exhausting approach to the Wilson phenomenon. On an inspection trip, he decided to sample the service at a pair of Holiday Inns outside New York City. In Kingston, N.Y., he found the staff conscientious; the motel manager phoned every name in the registry late one night until he finally matched Grant to the car in the parking lot with its lights left...