The Democracy Network
The National Endowment for Democ- racy (NED) was set up by the Reagan Administration in 1983 to bolster U.S. foreign ...
CBI: TROPICAL FLOP
THE PROMOTERS OF THE CARIBBEAN BASIN Initiative (CBI) predicted in 1983 that the "magic of the marketplace" would rescue the ...
A PROFILE OF FOREIGN AID
THE SHAPE OF U.S. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO the Caribbean might dismay North Americans who believe it should be spent to ...
FOLLOW THE NICS
THE SPONSORS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT like to hold up the success of the "Newly Industrialized Countries" of South Korea, Taiwan, ...
STATES WITHIN STATES
"LAST WEEK ALL OF A SUDDEN THE NEEDLE went right through me fingernail. But you can't use a thimble-it would ...
Jamaica: Leveraged Sellout
AT HIS SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN NOVEM- ber, U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica William Holden made his intentions clear. His stated mission ...
BANANA BUST
AT THE AGE OF 56, MRS.JOHN STILL STRUGGLES in Dominica's rugged mountains to raise bananas for export to England. Each ...
Taking Note
Hollywoodism WHEN THE SOVIET UNION REFRAINED from quashing the eruption of Eastern Europe, and even encouraged its former client states ...
