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A case study of the 6 Oct 1976 Cubana airline crash off Barbados in light of political terrorism in the Caribbean, focusing on the activities & motivations of the Venezuelan terrorists who planted the bombs. An attempt is then made to locate the disaster within Francis Mickolus's typology of political terrorism (Combatting International Terrorism: A Quantitative Anaylsis, PhD dissertation, New Haven: Yale U, 1981). Some of the legal issues that arose with regard to the Cubana crash are also discussed, & an attempt is made to determine the effects of this disaster on the Caribbean in general & Barbados in particular. Adapted from source document.

The 2000 presidential primaries were among the liveliest in recent memory. This article is the authors' first account of the changing fortunes of the candidates from the IA caucuses through Super Tuesday. It is based on the nomination phase of the Annenberg 2000 Election Surveys, a collection of nearly 32,000 interviews conducted from Nov through Mar, nationwide & in special-purpose state & regional studies, on a broad range of political science & communications questions. The anaylsis of dynamics is facilitated by the survey's rolling cross-section design, in which the day of interview is itself a product of random selection. This account emphasizes the interplay between substantive & strategic contributions to the votes cast at different points in the campaign, between evaluations of the candidates as people & policymakers, on the one hand, & judgments about the candidates' chances of winning a party's nomination & the general election, on the other. The pervasive influence of information is demonstrated. The knowledge voters managed to acquire through the campaign informed both kinds of considerations. The weight voters gave such considerations depends on the store of information they managed to accumulate about the candidates. 6 Figures, 9 References. Adapted from the source document.