Government leader: Queen Margrethe II, Premier Jonathan Motzfeldt

Suffrage: universal, but not compulsory, over age 21 Elections: held every 4 years

Political parties: Siumut-leading party in present government with 13 seats (moderate socialist, advocating more distinct Greenland identity and greater autonomy from Denmark); Atassut-second party in government with 8 seats (advocating close ties with Denmark; Sukaq (moderate socialist, advocating more distinct Greenland identity); Siumut (a more radical party advocating greater autonomy from Denmark)

ECONOMY

GNP: included in that of Denmark

Agriculture: arable areas largely in hay; sheep grazing; garden produce

Fishing: catch 59,738 tons (1977); exports $39.8 million (1976)

Major industries: mining, slaughtering, fishing, sealing Electric power: 57,500 kW capacity (1978); 120 million kWh produced (1978), 2,400 kWh per capita

Exports: $92.5 million (f.o.b., 1977); fish and fish products, metallic ores and concentrates

Imports: $160.7 million (c.i.f., 1977); petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and transport equipment, food products

Major trade partners: (1977) Denmark 68.3%, Finland 6.1%, West Germany 5.3%, U.K. 5.3%

Monetary conversion rate: 5.26 Danish Kroner=US$1 (first half 1979)

Fiscal year: calendar year beginning 1 January 1979

COMMUNICATIONS

Railroads: none

Highways: 80 km

Ports: 7 major, 16 minor

Civil air: 1 major transport aircraft (registered in Denmark)

Airfields: 11 total, 6 usable; 3 with permanent-surface runways; with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: adequate domestic and international service provided by cables and radio relay; 9,000 telephones (18.4 per 100 popl.); 5 AM, 6 FM, and 2 TV stations; 2 coaxial submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station

DEFENSE FORCES

Military manpower: males 15-49, included with Denmark

344 km2 (Grenada and southern Grenadines); 44% cultivated, 4% pastures, 12% forests, 17% unused but potentially productive, 23% built on, wasteland, other

WATER

Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (economic including fishing 200 nm)

Coastline: 121 km

PEOPLE

Population: 108,000 (January 1980), average annual growth rate 1.4% (4-70 to 7-77)

Nationality: noun-Grenadian(s); adjective-Grenadian Ethnic divisions: mainly of African-Negro descent Religion: Church of England; other Protestant sects; Roman Catholic

Language: English; some French patois

Literacy: unknown

Labor force: 27,314 (1960); 40% agriculture, 30% unemployed or underemployed

Organized labor: 33% of labor force

GOVERNMENT

Legal name: Grenada

Type: independent state since February 1974, recognizes Elizabeth II as Chief of State

Capital: St. Georges

Political subdivisions: 6 parishes

Legal system: based on English common law National holiday: Independence Day, 7 February Branches: following the 13 March 1979 coup, led by New Jewel Movement leader Maurice Bishop, constitution suspended on 25 March 1979 and replaced by People's Laws; 3man electoral commission appointed; elections unscheduled

Government leaders: Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, U.K. Governor General Paul Scoon

Suffrage: universal adult

Elections: formerly every 5 years; most recent general election 7 December$1976

Political parties and leaders: New Jewel Movement (NJM), Maurice Bishop; United People's Party (UPP), Winston Whyte; Grenada National Party (GNP), Herbert A. Blaize; Grenada United Labor Party (GULP)

Voting strength (1976 election): GULP 51.7%, Opposition Coalition, 48.3%; Legislative Council seats, GULP 9, Opposition Coalition, 6 (NJM 3, UPP 1, GNP 1, unaffilated 1)

Communists: negligible

Member of: CARICOM, G-77, IBRD, IMF, NAM, OAS, SELA, U.N.

ECONOMY

GDP: $56 million (1978), $520 per capita; real growth rate 1978, 4.5%

Agriculture: main crops-spices, cocoa, bananas Electric power: 7,000 kW capacity (1977); 25 million kWh produced (1977), 230 kWh per capita

Exports: $17 million (f.o.b., 1978); nutmeg, cocoa beans, bananas, mace

Imports: $36 million (c.i.f., 1978); food, machinery, building materials

Major trade partners: exports-33% U.K., 19% West Germany, 13% Netherlands; imports-27% West Indies, 27% U.K., 9% U.S. (1976)

Aid: economic-bilateral commitments, including Ex-Im (1970-77), from Western (non-U.S.) countries, $3.9 million; from OPEC, $1.2 million; no military aid.

Budget: (est. 1978) revenues, $18 million; expenditures, $28 million

Monetary conversion rate: 2.70 East Caribbean dollars= US$1

Fiscal year: calendar year

COMMUNICATIONS

Railroads: none

Highways: 1,000 km total; 600 km paved, 300 km otherwise improved; 100 km unimproved

Ports: 1 major (St. Georges), 1 minor

Civil air: no major transport aircraft Airfields: 2 total, 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways, 1 with runway 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: automatic, islandwide telephone system with 5,200 telephones (4.9 per 100 popl.); VHF and UHF links to Trinidad and Carriacou; 3 AM stations

1,779 km2; 24% cropland, 9% pasture, 4% potential cropland, 16% forest, 47% wasteland, built on; area consists of two islands

WATER

Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (fishing 200 nm)

Coastline: 306 km

PEOPLE

Population: 318,000 (January 1980), average annual growth rate 0.1% (10-67 to 1-78)

Nationality: noun-Guadeloupian(s); adjective-Guade

loupe

Ethnic divisions: 90% Negro or Mulatto, less than 5% East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese, 5% Caucasian

Religion: 95% Roman Catholic, 5% Hindu and pagan African

Language: French, creole patois

Literacy: over 70%

Labor force: 120,000; 25% agriculture, 25% unemployed Organized labor: 11% of labor force

GOVERNMENT

Legal name: Department of Guadeloupe

Type: overseas department and region of France; represented by 3 deputies in the French National Assembly and 2 Senators in the Senate; last deputy election, 12 March 1978

Capital: Basse-Terre

Political subdivisions: 3 arrondissements; 34 communes, each with a locally elected municipal council

Legal system: French legal system; highest court is a court of appeal based in Martinique with jurisdiction over Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Martinique

Branches: executive, Prefect appointed by Paris; legislative, popularly elected General Council of 36 members and a Regional Council composed of members of the local General Council and the locally elected deputies and senators to the French parliament; judicial, under jurisdiction of French judicial system

Government leader: Prefect Jean Claude Aurousseau Suffrage: universal over age 18

Elections: General Council elections are held normally every 5 years; last General Council election took place in March 1978

Political parties and leaders: Rassemblement Pour la Republique (RPR), Gabriel Lisette; Communist Party of Guadeloupe (PCG), Henri Bangou; Socialist Party (MSG), leader unknown; Progressive Party of Guadeloupe (PPG), Henri Rodes; Independent Republicans; Federation of the Left

Voting strength: MSG, 1 seat in French National Assembly; UDG, 2 seats; (1973 election)

Communists: 3,000 est.

Other political or pressure groups: Group of National Organization of Guadeloupe (GONG)

ECONOMY

GNP: $864 million (1977), $2,630 per capita; real growth rate (1977) 8%

Agriculture: main crops, sugarcane and bananas Major industries: agricultural processing, sugar milling and rum distillation

Electric power: 50,000 kW capacity (1977); 200 million kWh produced (1977), 610 kWh per capita

Exports: $79 million (f.o.b., 1977); sugar, fruits and vegetables, bananas

Imports: $374 million (c.i.f., 1977); foodstuffs, clothing and other consumer goods, raw materials and supplies, and petroleum

Major trade partners: exports-71% France, 17% U.S., 7% Germany, 5% other; imports-70% France, 9% U.S., 3% Germany, 3% Netherlands Antilles, 3% Netherlands, 12% other (1968)

Aid: economic-bilateral commitments including Ex-Im (1970-77), from Western (non-US) countries, $1.5 billion; no military aid

Monetary conversion rate: 4.3 French francs=US$1 (1978)

Fiscal year: calendar year

COMMUNICATIONS

Railroads: privately owned, narrow-gage plantation lines Highways: 3,500 km total; 2,200 km paved, 1,300 km gravel and earth

Ports: 1 major (Pointe-a-Pitre), 3 minor

Civil air: 1 major transport aircraft (leased in)

Airfields: 8 total, 8 usable, 8 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runway 2,440-3,659 m

Telecommunications: domestic facilities inadequate; 30,700 telephones (9.7 per 100 popl.); interisland VHF radio links; 2 AM and 3 TV transmitters

DEFENSE FORCES

GOVERNMENT

Legal name: Republic of Guatemala Type: republic

Capital: Guatemala

Political subdivisions: 22 departments

Legal system: civil law system; constitution came into effect 1966; judicial review of legislative acts; legal education at University of San Carlos of Guatemala; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

National holiday: Independence Day, 15 September Branches: traditionally dominant executive; elected unicameral legislature; 7-member (minimum) Supreme Court Government leader: President Maj. Gen. Fernando Romeo LUCAS Garcia

Suffrage: universal over age 18, compulsory for literates, optional for illiterates

Elections: next elections (President and Congress) 1982 Political parties and leaders: Democratic Institutional Party (PID), Donaldo Alvarez Ruiz, Revolutionary Party (PR), Jorge Garcia-Granados Quinonez (secretary general); National Liberation Movement (MLN), Mario Sandoval Alarcon; Guatemalan Christian Democratic Party (DCG), Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo (secretary general); Rene de Leon Schlotter (honorary President and party strongman); Nationalist Authentic Central (CAN), Luis Alfonso Lopez (secretary general), General Carlos Arana Osorio (party strongman); National United Front (FUN), Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia; Nationalist Renovator Party (PNR), Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre; United Revolutionay Party (FUR)

Voting strength: (1978) for President-PID/PR, 269,973 (42.3%); MLN, 211,393 (33.1%); DCG, 156,730 (24.6%); for congressional seats-PID/PR, 34 seats; MLN, 20 seats; DCG, 7 seats

Communists: Guatemalan Labor Party (PGT) outlawed; underground membership estimated at 1,000

Other political or pressure groups: Federated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CACIF)

Member of: CACM, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, ICO, IDA, IDB, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, ISO, ITU, IWC-International Wheat Council, OAS, ODECA, SELA, U.N., UNESCO, UPEB, UPU, WHO, WMO

ECONOMY

GNP: $6.6 billion (1978 est.), $1,000 per capita; 77% private consumption, 6% government consumption, 19% domestic investment (1977), -2% net foreign balance (1976); average annual real growth rate (1971-78), 5.7%

Agriculture: main products-coffee, cotton, corn, beans, sugarcane, bananas, livestock; caloric intake, 2,200 calories per day per capita (1967)

Fishing: catch 3,074 metric tons (1977); exports $2.6 million (1973), imports $0.7 million (1973)

Major industries: food processing, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, nonmetallic minerals, metals

Electric power: 365,000 kW capacity (1977); 1.5 billion kWh produced (1977), 230 kWh per capita

Exports: $1,160 million (f.o.b., 1978); coffee, cotton, sugar, bananas, meat

Imports: $1,258 million (f.o.b., 1978); manufactured products, machinery, transportation equipment, chemicals, fuels

Major trade partners: exports (1977) -34% U.S., 19% CACM, 13% West Germany, 8% Japan; imports (1977)— 31% U.S., 20% CACM, 7% Venezuela, 10% Japan, 7% West Germany

Aid: economic-from U.S. (FY46-76), $129 million loans, $236 million grants; from international organizations (FY46-75), $246 million; from other Western countries (1960-71), $12.3 million; military-assistance from U.S. (FY46-75), $41 million

Central government budget (1978 est.): expenditures, $943 million; revenues, $943 million

Monetary conversion rate: 1 quetzal = US$1 (official) Fiscal year: calendar year

COMMUNICATIONS

Railroads: 947 km, 0.914-meter gage, single-tracked; 832 km government-owned, 115 km privately owned

Highways: 25,500 km total; 2,750 km paved, 11,350 km gravel, and 11,400 km earth

Inland waterways: 260 km navigable year-round; additional 730 km navigable during high-water season Pipelines: crude oil, 48 km

Ports: 2 major (Puerto Barrios, Santo Tomas de Castilla), 3 minor

Airfields: 499 total, 497 usable; 7 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runway 2,440-3,659 m, 17 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Civil air: 12 major transport aircraft, including 1 leased in Telecommunications: modern telecom facilities limited to Guatemala City; 70,600 telephones (1.0 per 100 popl.); 97 AM, 20 FM, and 5 TV stations; connection into Central American microwave net

WATER

(See reference map VI)

Legal name: People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea Type: republic; under one-party presidential regime Capital: Conakry

Political subdivisions: 29 administrative regions, 209 arrondissements, about 8,000 local entities at village level

Legal system: based on French civil law system, customary law, and presidential decree; constitution adopted 1958; no constitutional provision for judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday: Independence Day, 2 October Branches: executive branch dominant, with power concentrated in President's hands and a small group who are both ministers and members of the party's politburo; unicameral National Assembly and judiciary have little independence