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National Geographic : 1981 Feb
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Mean streets of west Kingston (below right), a far cry from Jamaica'splush north-coast resorts, have become the focus of a government drive to disarm violence-prone politicalfactions. A specialcompound (below) serves as both trialsite and detention centerfor bearersof unlicensedguns. There is concern in the new government of Edward Seaga that arms have been cached in Jamaica'sslums. Besides restoringpeace, the new prime ministerfaces the awesome task of revitalizinghis nation'snear-bankrupt economy. Compounding his problems, a huge undergroundmarijuanatradewith the United States has become one of the nation'sprimary sources of revenue. and heard nothing to make a U. S. visitor feel unwelcome in Cuba. Havana, for all its size (nearly two million people), has the pace of a medium-size mid western U. S. city. One reason may be the lack of traffic. Only those who owned auto mobiles before the revolution or who can show need for one now are allowed to have cars. Besides quiet streets, the policy has resulted in a moving museum of early products of Detroit, lovingly tended to ex tend their life. I often engaged in a guessing game with a driver named Julio, who knew each by make and year. "Studebaker, Julio, cincuentay uno!" "No, Noel, cincuenta y dos." Downtown Havana was a pleasant sur prise, with its wide thoroughfares and old European flavor, high-arched porticoes and wrought-iron balconies. I saw living 264
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