Word: manley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced a tough challenge at her very first stop-the beautiful but economically blighted island of Jamaica. Prime Minister Michael Manley, a fiery socialist, has hinted at a capitalist U.S. plot to overthrow him. But Manley was the soul of propriety when he greeted Rosalynn at the airport and said that her husband's emphasis on human rights offered "great encouragement...
...First Lady will leave from Brunswick, Ga., aboard an Air Force Boeing 707 appropriately dubbed "Executive First Family," which translates into the radio call sign "Executive One Foxtrot." Her first stop: Kingston, Jamaica, where U.S. diplomats hope she can somehow allay Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley's suspicions of a CIA plot to "destabilize" his regime...
Trees and Clouds. All of which, to round-homers, is like discussing Chartres in terms of beam load. They speak lyrically of the feeling of spaciousness, of an almost mystical airiness induced by living under a skylight. A Los Angeles dome-ophile, sounding like Gerard Manley Hopkins, talks of skylights filled with "towering trees and billowing clouds dashed with birds in flight." Ken Niboli, a California real estate broker who lives and works in separate domes, puts the case even more compellingly. "I feel," he says, "like I'm always on vacation...
Case of Jitters. Manley's new policy directions, as well as his undisguised admiration for Fidel Castro, have given Jamaica's small and relatively conservative middle class a bad case of the jitters. Many Jamaican business families have established second residences abroad. Income from tourism has dropped from $120 million in 1975 to an expected $90 million this year as a result of the violence; bauxite and sugar exports, two of the country's other major foreign-exchange earners, suffer from shrunken international markets. The upshot is that Jamaica faces a staggering $1 billion national debt. Inflation...
...remains to be seen how Manley plans to restore both prosperity and tranquillity to his troubled, gemlike country. As the campaign proved, the ultimate in "heavy manners"−a state of emergency that Manley declared last June to curb island violence−apparently failed to do much good...