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Latin American Weekly Report - 13 March 1981
DOMINICA/ARRESTS
Former prime minister Patrick John and the defence force commander, Major Frederick Newton, arrested at the weekend on charges of plotting a coup, allegedly to have been carried out this Saturday, 14 March. Also arrested were Dennis Joseph, the former director of broadcasting, and an army corporal. The arrests were made under a state of emergency declared on 13 February after a group of Rastafarians kidnapped Ted Honychurch, a rich farmer whose son Lennox is the government's information secretary (RC-81-02).
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