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...Fall Colombia Seminar Slated Washington's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University will host a seminar this September on the current situation in Colombia...

...The group also toured the construction site of Grenada's pride and joy-the new international airport...

...sociologist Alvaro Camacho...

...Black on Guatemala, This Time in English Garrison Guatemala (Jan-Feb) and Guatemala-The War is Not Over (Mar-Apr), our two-part report on the current crisis in Guatemala, will appear in an extended book format, this time for a British audience...

...Discussions explored the revolutionary paths taken by the three countries, given their different historical experiences as well as differing intensities of U.S...

...Traveling Expertise Editor Judy Butler and Researcher Deborah Huntington shared their expertise with a group of U.S...

...destabilization efforts...

...Zed Press approached the reports' author, NACLA Researcher George Black, with the offer during a recent working vacation to his native England...

...As a member of NACLA's Central America research team, Judy Butler was asked by the Berkshire Forum in Stephentown, NY to join its tour to Grenada and add a regional perspective to what participants would be learning...

...Making use of contacts solidified during the two years she lived in Santo Domingo, Huntington set up interviews with economists, peasants and development officials...

...and the Colombian ambassador to the United States, Alvaro G6mez...

...economist H6ctor Melo...

...tourists visiting Grenada and another which toured the Dominican Republic in January...

...Deborah Huntington helped plan and lead the Dominican portion of a 212-week Oxfam study tour comparing development mod46 els in that country and Nicaragua...

...ambassador to Colombia, Lewis A. Tambs...

...former president of the National Association of Financial Institutions, Ernesto Samper...

...Sending that satellite was really a bit tacky...

...Papers and discussions will address Colombia in the 1980s-prospects for the domestic political scene, the guerrilla movement, the economy, drug trade, militarization of civil society and the country's growing role in Washington's regional strategy...

...Smith shared the conviction of every Grenadian the group spoke with, that the airport was crucial to the development of tourism and the new agro-export industries...

...The Zed edition, to appear in early fall, will include a new introduction, additional statistical material and updated analysis of the Rios Montt period...

...While in London, Black also appeared on the BBC-1 television talk show, "Sunday Night," analyzing the political impact of Pope John Paul II's visit to Central America...

...The 20 travelers met with leaders of organizations for women and youth, trade unionists, visited new agricultural projects, interviewed the Cuban Ambassador to learn about economic and cultural cooperation between the two island nations and worked alongside a volunteer construction team just finishing up a new community center...

...NACLA, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Colombian Human Rights Committee of Washington and SAIS are co-sponsoring the meeting...

...Among those invited to participate are the former Colombian foreign relations minister, Vzquez Carrizosa...

...Countering Reagan assertions that the project is a postrevolution, Soviet-bloc conspiracy for military purposes, the Grenadian project manager, engineer Ronald G. Smith, recounted his own years-long involvement in the design and planning...

...If Reagan wanted good photos of the airport," mused Butler, "I don't know why he didn't just ask the students at the American medical school located out by the end of the runway...

...former defense minister and 1978 presidential candidate, Alvaro Valencia Tovar...

...Most mornings began with 6:30 exercises on Grand Anse beach, and an open-air discussion led by Butler, a Nicaragua specialist, or two North Americans living in Cuba...

...The 34 tour participants-including clergy, relief organization workers and food activists-spent a lot of time in the countryside, talking with the beneficiaries of land reform and learning first hand how the two countries have approached development issues...