That evening, Michael and Thelma took Joetta and me to dinner.
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He looked at us intently for a few seconds, then said, “You biting her? Bite her again.” Joetta and I cracked up laughing. In 1961 when I was dating my high school sweetheart and future wife, Joetta Chung, I visited her when she spent a week with her aunt, Thelma Manley, the ex-wife of Michael Manley who became the fourth prime minister of Jamaica in 1972.Īt one point during the day, Joetta and I were alone in the living room when Thelma’s four-year-old son, Joseph, came in the room and caught us kissing.
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This post is second in a series that will reflect on my Jamaican heritage and how it has shaped my Christian journey. Set against the historical background of 470 years of Spanish and British rule (1492-1962) over Jamaica, the memoir portrays my family whose African, Chinese, and European roots merged in Jamaica during the 1800s, then scattered across the globe in the 1900s. The United Nations Secretary General, Dr Kurt Waldheim, made the presentation, and then Mr Harriman spoke.In my memoir, A Jamaican’s Journey to Time and Patience, I reflect on my personal odyssey to discover and fulfill God’s call in my life, heal family wounds, and share Christ’s message of redeeming grace and love. The anti-apartheid observance came at a time when feelings were running strongly among some delegates in the United Nations against South Africa's reluctance to accept the UN's plan for transition to independence in Namibia (South West Africa.) He and other award winners then assembled, and he was presented with a gold medal by the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, which is headed by Mr Leslie Harriman of Nigeria. SYNOPSIS: Mr Manley's speech received a standing ovation. The Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, Mr Leslie Harriman, from Nigeria, spoke after greater effort against apartheid. The Jamaican Prime Minister, Mr Michael Manley, urged land, sea and air sanctions against South Africa, before he was presented with an award for his work against apartheid. All rights reservedīackground: special meeting at the United Nations General Assembly was held on Wednesday (11 October) to observe International Anti-Apartheid year. The United Nations must go towards the demands and pressures to the exercise of all its manifold powers on the charter and to the mobilisation of all the resources of the international community to seal the final blow on apartheid." HARRIMAN: "This international year must see the beginning of a determined international effort to quarantine racists as enemies of humanity, and to assist the people of South Africa in asserting their true national independence and sovereignty. (APPLAUSE) In the name of every martyr who has died for freedom in the name of every child who is now facing the blank wall of racial rejection in the name of all who must now risk their lives to be liberated from the stigma of that shame, let us prepare to act, and let us determine that we shall not fail." Total sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and even blockades, are not too high a price to pay now to avoid the holocaust that will surely come, and into which we will all be drawn if we fail to act. MANLEY: "We must be prepared to go to all the lengths contemplated by articles 41 and 42 of the Charter. LV UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim presenting award to Mr Manley Indalecio Lievano, introducing in Spanish the Chairman of the UN Special Committee against apartheid Mr Leslie Harriman LV President of the General Assembly, Sr. GV Delegates arriving for awards for their anti-apartheid work GV Standing ovation from Assembly for Mr Manley SCU Prime Minister of Jamaica, Mr Michael Manley, speaking in English at the United Nations General Assembly (3 shots)
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