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How does a former Prime Minister support FrankE Manning has been on the North tour inspired an encore later in the spring. He himself while leading an opposition party American lecture circuit with Jamaica's has also been joined by other West Indian which no longer holds a seat in Parliament? opposition leader Michael Manley. critics of the Grenada invasion and related Fo1 Jamaica's Michael Manley, part of the political trends. One of these is Don Rojas, answer has been to liead north to the university 's press secretary, who is now lecture circuit. The pay is good. the travel living in Canada and seeking ministerial exc1ting and the audiences more receptive permission to remain. Rojas has given a than most of the voters at home. number of talks to university and community This year. as the long Canadian winter groups, and has become a familiar figure on sluwly relaxed its grip, Manley staged a the television talk show circuit. campus tour that took him from Ontario to More recently Rickey Singh, the contro­ Bntish Columbia. Beginmng at the University versial former editor of Contact, of Western Ontario. Manley hammered out launched a four-week speaking tour in Canada the familiar themes that were the public sponsored by the Canadian Council of sig.natureboth of his 1972-80 rule in Jamaica Churches. Singh. whose work permit was and of his broader reputation as an advocate of abruptly revoked by the Barbados government international economic reform. last autumn after he severely criticised the .. There is a basic difference," he told an invasion of Grenada, has warned Canadian overflow Saturday night crowd, "between a audiences about the US military build-up in strategy of independence and a strategy of the Eastern Caribbean and its continui�rg neocolonialism. In a strategy of independence, dominance of Grenada. He has also acknowl­ you maximise your resources and productive edged, however, that the Grenadian public capacity, and develop your autonomy and feel a deep sense of "betrayal and trauma" self-reliance. In a strategy of neocolonialism, over the assassination of Bishop, and are in no you say you are too small to stand alone. and moodto tolerate further revolutionary activity. , tht:rcfore need to align yourself with a metro­ But Manley remains the star of the politan power and serve its interests. I stand travelling Canadian show. thanks to his un·1pologetically for independence. My suc­ superior platform skills and to the wide cc,�or in Jamaica stands unapologetically for Michael Manley: "reliance on the !MF was international publicity that he attracted during neocolonialism.·· the biggest mistake of my life" his eight years as Jamaica's Prime M mister. Referring to Nicaragua as well as Grenada, Speaking of that period in his first cam, �·s.t.all<. Manley claimed that "politics follows econ­ Fortunately, he added, Canada has gained Manley acknowledged that his indebtedness omics." The Monroe Doctrine was propa­ from its relatively greater experience. Com­ to the IMF - which he charged with gat

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