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Manley had explained to his fervent followers that Jamaican problems resulted from a devastating triple play: Western imperialism and its effect on the Jamaican capital, a skyrocketing oil import bill and blundering representatives in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF received particular wrath from Manley, who blamed the Fund for forcing a Jamaican currency devaluation which he claimed had disabled the Jamaican economy. Symbols of last week's election, graffiti scrawled on the walls of Kingston and throughout the country, denounced the IMF for trying to prompt the downfall...
...rise to political significance of a self-styled Moral Majority [Oct. 13], with the unavoidable implication that those who don't share its views are immoral and evil, is to me a frightening development. History shows that nothing else is so provocative of wrath as the threat of having someone else's moral and religious views imposed...
...flash of what Winston Churchill called the "second coming in wrath" could be seen as far as 250 miles away...
...Adams House B entry. In the recent past the vulnerability of women and gays walking the streets of Cambridge at night has received much emphasis in the Crimson and elsewhere on campus. My friend and I are average-size men with nothing about our appearance to attract the wrath of three highly intoxicated Cambridge gentlemen, but for being on the same street with them. This incident would seem to indicate that Cambridge is not really a safe place for anyone to stroll casually unprepared and without thinking. It is not quite time, I hope, to bolt and barricade our doors...
...some local contests. In Alaska, members of Moral Majority this summer took over the entire state delegation to the Republican Convention. In Alabama last month, Representative John Buchanan lost his seat in Congress; though he is a Baptist minister, his liberal views on women's rights aroused the wrath of Moral Majority, which turned out a huge Republican primary vote against him. Says Buchanan: "They beat my brains out with Christian love...