Word: manley
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...decision brought an unusual response from Seaga's principal opposition, the socialist People's National Party (P.N.P.), led by former Prime Minister Michael N. Manley. Charging that Seaga had broken a promise not to hold new elections until voter rolls were updated and new registration procedures, including thumbprinting and photographs, were in place, Manley declared the first election boycott in Jamaica's 21 years of independence. The vote, he said, would amount to "a rape of democracy." By refusing to participate in the elections, the P.N.P. has ensured that Seaga will control almost all of the Parliament...
Seaga defeated Manley in 1980 partly because voters had become disenchanted with Manley's growing ties to Cuba and to Jamaica's extreme left. By emphasizing the role of his country's 175 troops in the Caribbean Peace Force, Seaga did his best to exploit lingering fears of the left. Said Carl Stone, Jamaica's leading political pollster: "People see that what happened to [Grenada's assassinated Prime Minister] Maurice Bishop could have happened to Manley: a popular leader encircled, controlled and then eliminated by the radical left...
Exactly one-minute into Cornell's Mindy Manley penalty, the Crimson's other starting defenseman got into the act Carroll this time dealt the puck from the slot to Sue Newell at the top of the right face-off circle. With Carroll screening Gilbert the senior defenseman found the twines...
Only four years ago, when Cuban-allied governments came to power almost simultaneously in Nicaragua and Grenada, Castro's clout seemed to be on the rise. But an erosion began the next year when voters in Jamaica elected conservative Edward Seaga to succeed leftist Michael Manley, a Castro ally, as Prime Minister. Jamaica has now swung so strongly against Cuba that Seaga sent troops to assist in the invasion of Grenada and last week expelled the last semiofficial Cuban on the island, a correspondent for the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. Seaga charged that the correspondent had participated with...
Literature that yearns toward the condition of music provides a more promising line of inquiry. Burgess explores lyric verse, the sprung rhythms of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the verbal polyphony of James Joyce. He envisions quasimusical novels built on principles of "structuralism, a liberation from marketplace meanings," and offers two of his own, M/Fand Napoleon Symphony, as exhibits...