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...member interim advisory council, which will administer until elections can be held, later also convened at Scoon's to thresh out the problems of their succession. At stake is the introduction of a democratic system to replace the institutions that were swept away in the tempest of dictatorship, socialist revolution and armed upheaval that has racked Grenada in recent years. Scoon's legal adviser, Commonwealth Constitutional Scholar Antony Rushford, says that Grenada's British-style Independence Constitution of 1973 will be revived in stages, returning the island to a two-house parliamentary system and a majority-elected...
...decision brought an unusual response from Seaga's principal opposition, the socialist People's National Party (P.N.P.), led by former Prime Minister Michael N. Manley. Charging that Seaga had broken a promise not to hold new elections until voter rolls were updated and new registration procedures, including thumbprinting and photographs, were in place, Manley declared the first election boycott in Jamaica's 21 years of independence. The vote, he said, would amount to "a rape of democracy." By refusing to participate in the elections, the P.N.P. has ensured that Seaga will control almost all of the Parliament...
...greatest accomplishment was to remind people that they could think for themselves, at a time in this century when humanity seemed to prefer taking marching orders. He steadfastly valued ideals over ideology. He tried to strike a correct socialist attitude toward Dickens, and could not quite pull it off: "His whole 'message' is one that looks at first glance like an enormous platitude: If men would behave decently the world would be decent." But the sentiment, he concluded, "is not such a platitude as it sounds." Indeed, for all the pessimism attributed to him posthumously, Orwell...
...then Orwell had become something of a celebrated eccentric, that gaunt Etonian who dressed like a working man (corduroy trousers, dark shirt, size-twelve boots), rolled his cigarettes from a pouch of acrid shag and poured his tea into a saucer before drinking it (there he goes, that Socialist who says such terrible things about Mr. Stalin). Eric Blair had totally metamorphosed into George Orwell; the mask had become the man. Money was still scarce; his books had made him well known but not solvent. He turned out columns for Tribune, a weekly organ of the non-Communist British left...
...Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags, and loyalty-parades...