The Nation, July 13th, 1992
When Michael Manley, weakened by the cancer he has been fighting since 1985, resigned the prime ministership of Jamaica in March, he left his People's National Party and the country in the custody of P.J. Patterson, the former deputy prime minister and finance minister. Manley spoke blithely about the "consensus and agreement" between the P.N.P. and Edward Seaga's Jamaica Labor Party (J.L.P.) in the wake of two months of intensified political violence that has left dozens of people dead. The two parties and their well-armed thugs have been shooting it out in the streets of Kingston for three...
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