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...with its Walt Disney-made movie, prosaically titled Canada '67, which uses a 360° to tal-involvement screen to project the spectators into the middle of a furious National League hockey game. Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion. Most popular restaurant: Canada's Atlantic Provinces pavilion, where diners can feast on excellent sea food chowder while watching shipwrights at work building a wooden-hulled schooner...
...that would enable the West Indians to combine their resources. The five new states have agreed to establish a single supreme court-but so far, that is all. Past attempts at federation have flopped. The most notable one collapsed in 1962, when the larger islands of Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago, fearing that the smaller islands would become an economic burden on them, opted for full independence instead of a federal arrangement. One of the strongest opponents of federation was Antigua's Papa Bird, whose title last week was elevated from Chief Minister to Premier. He has a point when...
...frail little visitor, in full military regalia and a Sam Browne belt, stepped majestically into the waiting Bentley in Trinidad-Tobago's capital of Port-of-Spain. Thousands of cheering Negroes lined the streets, and one man gallantly pulled off his shirt and laid it in the path of the visitor's car. Later, 1,100 schoolchildren put on a dance extravaganza. Then, seated on a throne beneath a purple canopy in a makeshift church on Port-of-Spain's outskirts, the visitor watched impassively as incense-swinging priests murmured prayers and the high priest read...
...most of whose ancestors came from Africa, share a sense of brotherhood and a deep feeling for African rulers, especially for an African king such as Selassie. They also share a similar history of colonialism, mixed populations and economic problems. Since they gained their independence in 1962, both Trinidad-Tobago and Jamaica have seen their economies slow down and unemployment rise. As for Haiti, its economy has always been a mess, and only gets worse every year...
Selassie's visit, marked by pomp and circumstance from beginning to end, helped take the minds of the people off such problems for a few days, gave their leaders a chance to bask in Selassie's reflected glory. Trinidad-Tobago's Prime Minister Eric Williams, who extended the original invitation to Selassie two years ago, kept his visitor visible and on the go, attending receptions, laying wreaths and setting cornerstones. In the small, ornate parliamentary chamber of the country's "Red House," Selassie pleased everyone by calling for closer ties between "the two great peoples...