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...talents of discretion. But that seemed beyond him, as he made all too clear to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee on multinational corporations a fortnight ago. De Roulet claimed in a public hearing that he had made a "deal" with Jamaica's new and progressive Prime Minister Michael Manley, 49, before last year's election. In exchange for a personal guarantee that Manley would not nationalize the U.S.-owned bauxite industry, De Roulet said, he had promised not to intervene in the elections. Manley promptly denied the tale, pointing out that at no time during his campaign...
...socially activist have reggae lyrics become that they were a highly effective political weapon in the last Jamaican election in February 1972, when Michael Manley, head of the opposition People's National Party, hired Reggae Singer-Composer Clancy Eccles as his campaign consultant. First Eccles converted the reggae hit Better Must Come ("Let the power fall, beat down Babylon!") into the party anthem. Next he supplied disc jockeys with rhythmic campaign slogans. Then he assembled a morality play, casting Manley as Joshua-rewriting the last line of his own reggae song Rod of Correction and substituting the name...
...name, at least to Northern Hemisphere Christians, is Montevideo's Juan Luis Segundo, whose theology is just beginning to appear in English. The restored society has also produced the other kinds of creative minds that distinguished its earlier eras, including Philosopher-Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins...
Each year five Overseers are elected for six year terms. The candidates in order on the ballot are: Elizabeth B. Dubois '62, Humphrey Doerman '52, Manley Fleischmann '29, Gerard Pier '37, Dr. John H. Knowles '47, Walter H. Page '37, Eli Goldston '42, Marilyn W. Monsour '45, Joseph W. Bartlett II '52, and Kenneth Keniston...
...unabashed egalitarian," as he puts it, Manley grew up in an atmosphere of politics and art (his English-born mother is a sculptor). After service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II, he studied at the London School of Economics, then went to work for the BBC. His heroes: "Dad, Martin Luther King and Harold Laski." Manley returned to the island in 1952, became a labor negotiator, and did not run for Parliament until 1967. Though Manley today is "looking outward" to Third World nations (including Cuba), he still has his mind set on launching Jamaica firmly...