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...Caribbean island nation of Jamaica is small and poor-but it also is the source of 60% of the bauxite that U.S. companies use to make aluminum. That gives it power that under the leadership of Prime Minister Michael Manley, it is starting to use. Last week, after three months of futile resistance, the companies coughed up the first $39 million due under Manley's plan to multiply eightfold the taxes and royalties on bauxite mined out of the Jamaican earth. The payments presage substantial price increases in the U.S. on aluminum products ranging from lawn chairs to beer...
...Jamaican eyes, Manley's power play is only an attempt to redress a neocolonialist relationship. Between 1949 and the mid-1960s, five American corporations and one Canadian firm bought 225,000 acres of bauxite-rich land, or 13% of the island's total land area, mostly from private owners. Ore exports from the mines reached 7.4 million tons in 1973, and taxes and royalties on the shipments that year brought in $25 million, roughly 40% of Jamaica's foreign currency. But under the complicated tax system, the Jamaican take on each ton shipped dropped from...
...heavy-handed onslaught of forced alliteration is the most obvious flaw. The result would be laughable if she were attempting a parody of Gerard Manley Hopkins--but she's not. She's perfectly serious...
...latest offering, Napoleon Symphony, the author, who is also a serious composer, has reached for everything from kazoos to pipe organs. The result is a mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional gash of Gerard Manley Hopkins' gold-vermilion. "The last section of the book is written in the style of Henry James," Burgess explains without a trace of solemnity, "because Henry James believed he was Napoleon when he was dying...
...review, prepared by GSA counsel William F. Manley, calls the lack of community impact conclusions in the final Magure report "poor" and "at odds with current trends...