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Thus Beverlee Manley, an analyst for an assembly committee, does not al low her lobbyist husband to buy her din ner. There is some doubt that Sarah Michael, a consultant for another committee, could legally accept an engagement ring from Bernie Mikell, her boy friend, since he works as a lobbyist for the California Savings and Loan League. The state's assemblymen have sworn off the free orange juice, dough nuts, ice cream and milk that traditionally have been donated by outside interests...
...Bail. Prime Minister Michael Manley and Jamaica's Parliament finally had enough last March after four prominent businessmen were shot to death. Manley sponsored two new laws aimed at meting out "swift, sure and irreversible punishment" to anyone caught carrying a gun illegally. Under the Suppression of Crime Act, army troops cordon off areas of the 4,411-sq.-mi. island while police conduct intensive house-to-house searches without warrants. Anyone caught with an unlicensed gun or even a single bullet is tried under the provisions of a second law, the Gun Court Act. Under the terms...
...Manley insists that the only important consideration is the reduction of crime. If the gun court is ruled unconstitutional by Jamaica's court of appeal, the Prime Minister warns he will devise another means of keeping pressure on the gunmen. His position is unequivocal: "There is no place in this society for the gun, now or ever...
...Taxes. Three months ago, Manley demanded that the aluminum companies renegotiate their contracts. But after ten weeks of vitriolic argument, the talks broke off. Manley professes astonishment at the companies' attitude. "They just would not offer a realistic figure," he told TIME'S Bernard Diederich. Company executives insist that they did not oppose higher payments-only the tough tactics that Manley adopted. In fact, the companies say, they offered to agree to a tripling of payments, but Manley refused...
...Manley finally rammed through the Jamaican Parliament a set of new taxes and royalties calculated to raise Jamaica's revenues from bauxite to $200 million this year, eight times as much as in 1973. Though the companies are paying, they protest: Alcoa, Kaiser Aluminum and Reynolds Metals have announced their intention to take their case to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a branch of the World Bank, for observation on the ground that the new taxes violate a lawful contract...