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...support troops (logistics, medical and administrative personnel) to train Grenadian security forces. This modest detachment, along with the 396-member Caribbean Peace-Keeping Force, may well provide a necessary sense of order. "People are so scared, so insecure because of how unsettled things are," says Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General who languished in prison for 2½ years during the regime of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. With Grenada's police force whittled to little more than 100 men, the potential for lawlessness and violence simmers just below the surface. Earlier this month, a small band of young...
...intervention. Former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop had been their hero, and when he was placed under house arrest by extremists led by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard and then executed by a Military Revolutionary Army Council headed by General Hudson Austin, the earlier revolutionaries lost their zeal. Said Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General under Bishop who had been imprisoned after breaking with Bishop's party: "The Americans should feel free to establish a base here." He urged that the U.S. stay for at least two years of transition to a more stable government. Lyden Ramdhany, Bishop...
...NOEL COWARD'S Design for Living, as it is now performed by the Huntington Theater Company, shines and glistens, amuses and entertains; it is an enjoyable evening of theater. But ironically, it lacks the shimmer of sophistication which is both the subject and the essence of the play...
...been back at Taliesin long before the house again burned down, this time destroying hundreds of valuable things Wright had brought from Japan. Again he rebuilt Taliesin. Then his second wife, Miriam Noel, left him. Before he was able to marry Olgivanna, the soft-voiced, Montenegrin woman who is his present wife, they and their baby were incredibly harried by the newspapers, the Noel lawyers and the police, who jailed them in Milwaukee Wright could get no work, could earn no money. Taliesin fell into the hands of a bank. Wright got it back only when a group...
...Playwright Noel Coward, visiting the U.S. for the first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...