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...landslide winner, with 59% of the vote, was the centrist New National Party, led by Herbert Blaize, 66, a cautiously conservative former head of government whose political career on the island stretches back for decades. The N.N.P. won 14 of the 15 seats in Grenada's new House of Representatives. A day later, Blaize, who sported a new gray fedora on the way to the ceremony, was sworn in as Prime Minister at York House, Grenada's yellow brick, Georgian-style government building. He then thanked voters for "showing in such a massive way that they are willing...
Despite the size of Blaize's triumph, he was never considered a sure winner. Indeed, only two months before the balloting, the dominant political mood in Grenada appeared to be apathy, especially among political moderates. The N.N.P. was hastily cobbled together from three rival Grenadian parties only last August. During the low-key, three-month campaign, Blaize and his supporters emphasized the themes of economic development and safeguards against the abuse of power, while Gairy's G.U.L.P. ran under the slogan "Americans must stay forever." New Jewel loyalists tried to whip up sentiment over alleged CIA interference...
...winner's other great advantage was his reassuring lack of charisma. As he puts it, "I'm just an ordinary guy who believes in the Lord and trusts in him for support." The son of a laborer, Blaize was born on Grenada's sister island of Carriacou and moved to Grenada in 1930 to attend secondary school. A bicycle accident two years after graduation left him briefly paralyzed; as a result he suffers from degenerative arthritis and walks with the aid of a cane...
Finally the circle broke up, and the public address announcer told the crowd. "We have a winner. It's Harvard...
...comes down to the recruitment and coordination in each house," said Bradford J. Baker '86, one of three recruitment leaders from Lowell House, the winner of this year's interhouse blood drive competition sponsored by the University Health Services...