Hurricane IMF World Bank U.S. Aid in the Caribbean

"LAST WEEK ALL OF A SUDDEN THE NEEDLE went right through me fingernail. But you can't use a thimble-it would

AT HIS SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN NOVEM- ber, U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica William Holden made his intentions clear. His stated mission

AT THE AGE OF 56, MRS.JOHN STILL STRUGGLES in Dominica's rugged mountains to raise bananas for export to England. Each

Hollywoodism WHEN THE SOVIET UNION REFRAINED from quashing the eruption of Eastern Europe, and even encouraged its former client states

Rites of the Right [Bush has completed] a Presidential initiation rite...[joining] American lead- ers [who] since World War II have

SCHOOL, SANITATION, POSTAL AND MOST other services ground to a halt during the second week of December, when Grenada's 7,000

The Caribbean: Survival, Struggle and Sovereignty by Catherine A. Sunshine. EPICA, 1988 (revised ed), 255 pp., $10.00 (paper). This updated

THE HURRICANE THAT VENGEFUL CARIB- bean deity whom no one can influence, much less control, and whose destructive power is

The National Endowment for Democ- racy (NED) was set up by the Reagan Administration in 1983 to bolster U.S. foreign

THE PROMOTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN BASIN Initiative (CBI) predicted in 1983 that the "magic of the marketplace" would rescue the

THE SHAPE OF U.S. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO the Caribbean might dismay North Americans who believe it should be spent to

THE SPONSORS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT like to hold up the success of the "Newly Industrialized Countries" of South Korea, Taiwan,