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THE HURRICANE THAT VENGEFUL CARIB- bean deity whom no one can influence, much less control, and whose destructive power is unmatched is an appropriate metaphor for the role the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the U.S.

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Kathy McAfee
THE SHAPE OF U.S.
Kathy McAfee
AT THE AGE OF 56, MRS.JOHN STILL STRUGGLES in Dominica's rugged mountains to raise bananas for export to England.
Kathy McAfee
THE PROMOTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN BASIN Initiative (CBI) predicted in 1983 that the "magic of the marketplace" would rescue the beleaguered economies of U.S.
WHEN HURRICANE HUGO RIPPED ACROSS Dominica in September, destroying 80% of the banana crop, it presented the nation with an opportunity to move toward a more diversified and self-reliant economy. But the priorities of those who control Dominica lie elsewhere.
Mark Cook
For years the Moscow-line Nicara- guan Socialist Party was so poverty- stricken it could not publish a newspa- per or even a mimeographed weekly. But in September 1988 it came into enough money to hire the posh Ruben DarIo Salon of Managua's Interconti- nental Hotel for a lavishly catered press conference.
Kathy McAfee
THE SPONSORS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT like to hold up the success of the "Newly Industrialized Countries" of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong as models for the Caribbean. But to comply with World Bank advice to "follow the NICs," Caribbean nations would have to break nearly every policy prescription the Bank, the IMF and AID have tried to impose.
SCHOOL, SANITATION, POSTAL AND MOST other services ground to a halt during the second week of December, when Grenada's 7,000 public employees walked off the job. The issue at hand was $9.
The Caribbean: Survival, Struggle and Sovereignty by Catherine A. Sunshine.
AT HIS SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN NOVEM- ber, U.S.
Rites of the Right [Bush has completed] a Presidential initiation rite..
Kathy McAfee
IN ITS ZEAL TO REVERSE THE SUPPOSEDLY "anti-private enterprise" policies of the People's Revolutionary Government, AID practically ignored the 8,000 independent farmers who are the source of most of Grenada's export earnings and much of its food. Nor was AID concerned with the majority of rural people who are landless or very land-poor and work under conditions which have changed little since the era of slavery.
Kathy McAfee
"LAST WEEK ALL OF A SUDDEN THE NEEDLE went right through me fingernail. But you can't use a thimble-it would hold you back.
MF
Hollywoodism WHEN THE SOVIET UNION REFRAINED from quashing the eruption of Eastern Europe, and even encouraged its former client states to go their own way, Latin America's hopes for a Glasnost Ameri- cana suddenly seemed well founded. Why couldn't it happen here? Gone is the primary justification for U.
ONE OFFICIAL OF THE U.S.
William I. Robinson
The National Endowment for Democ- racy (NED) was set up by the Reagan Administration in 1983 to bolster U.S.
William I. Robinson
Just minutes after being nominated as FSLN presidential candidate for the February 25 elections, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra was asked if he would face his principal opponent, Violeta Barnos de Chamono, in a televised debate. More than one reporter was taken aback when Ortega declared he would like to challenge his "campaign opponent, George Bush," to a live debate at "opposition head- quarters in Washington, D.
Kathy McAfee
ON JUNE 23, U.S.