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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such figures have raised questions, and some tempers, in a region that may be richer in protest songs than ready cash. "Our banana and grapefruit economies can't maintain a gun state," declares Egerton M. Richards, publisher of the staid weekly Vincentian. Other pleas have been Seven more plangent. The St. Vincent opposition paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caribbean: Machine Guns in Paradise | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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