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...Cubans made an excellent choice of aid when they gave the island its first fishing trawler"-a 65-ft. vessel that will greatly augment the tiny catch made by the country's fleet of small, open fishing boats. In an interview with TIME, Grenada's Socialist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop claimed that "one of the reasons Cubans are in Grenada is because the Americans aren't." He said it took ten days after the coup for U.S. Ambassador Frank Ortiz to assure him that the U.S. would not intervene on behalf of Gairy, a bizarre advocate...
...former. Explains an exiled opposition leader: "Who would want to inherit Haiti's problems?" Castro's ambitions have also been frustrated on Dominica, where Hurricane David blew away not only thousands of homes, but the odds-on chance that Leftist David Rosie Douglas would unseat Prime Minister Oliver Seraphin in the December elections. When Grenada's Prime Minister Bishop and a team of Cubans arrived on the little island (750 sq. mi.) with a promise of $5 million in relief assistance from Havana, they were greeted by scores of U.S. flags fluttering from surviving buildings. The spontaneous...
...such as democratic. Precisely because Islam is everything, it means everything." He defended the paramount role that the clergy will play under the new constitution: "Since people love the clergy, have faith in the clergy, it is right that the supreme religious authority should oversee the work of the Prime Minister or of the President of the Republic, to make sure that they don't go against the law, that is, against the Koran...
Before that deadline was up, Zimbabwe Rhodesia's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa accepted the British draft unequivocally. He then repeated his demand that the British meet their "legal and moral obligation to immediately lift [economic] sanctions and lead us to international recognition." The only dissenter in Muzorewa's twelve-man party was former Prime Minister Ian Smith. He denounced the British pact as "madness" and flew back to Salisbury to rally white support against...
...trade deficits, thus weakening the dollar. It is all too easy to blame the trade deficit on skyrocketing oil prices, though they are a major cause; Japan, which must import all its oil, has maintained a trade surplus by developing high-technology products and aggressively selling them abroad. A prime example: every one of the million video tape recorders sold in the U.S.-including those marketed under American labels-was developed and made in Japan...