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...Jamaica, the conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Seaga discovered shortly after its election last October that it desperately needed $100 million in operating funds. Seaga passed the word to a group of visiting U.S. and Venezuelan businessmen who were looking at ways to revive the island's near bankrupt economy. Shortly thereafter, Jamaica received a $50 million grant from a confidential Venezuelan government discretionary fund that may total as much as $500 million. An additional $50 million from Venezuela is now being funneled into the island, earmarked for road and airport development, housing, water supply and electrification...
Prime Minister Seaga is head of government, not head of state...
...More Signals to the World" [Feb. 16], you referred to President Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea as the first ruling foreign visitor to the Reagan Administration. The first was Jamaica's Prime Minister Edward Seaga...
That fact alone largely explains why there are so few self-styled popular political forces in the Third World that are unabashedly pro-American. Happily, one such rarity emerged triumphant in last year's Jamaican elections, which brought Prime Minister Edward Seaga to power...
...first foreign head of government to visit the White House will be Jamaica's newly elected Prime Minister, Edward Seaga, who arrives in Washington this week. The victory last fall of a candidate who supports the free market and friendship with the U.S. marked a stunning reversal of what seemed to be a socialist current in the turbulent Caribbean. Seaga's visit will give Reagan the opportunity to disclose whatever policy he has in mind for encouraging America's friends in the region...