Word: blanco
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...Kathleen Babineaux Blanco make every effort to get federal help...
Tourists and residents who chose to stay put and a largely low-income population unable to flee are islanded from an escape, surrounded by looting, undocumented rapes, and death. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco said that as many as 300,000 residents may not have evacuated the city...
...thin margin of 36%-34%. Many residents have close ties to Spain, and most don't speak Basque. A majority of 59%, however, thinks the government should allow a referendum to go ahead. Before it comes to that, the Basque government faces regional elections in the spring. José Blanco, Secretary of Zapatero's Socialist Party, hopes local party candidates can do well enough against Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party to head off a collision with Madrid. And the Socialists say they can fine-tune relations with the Basque Country without resorting to a constitutional amendment. "We are firm...
...France raising money also continues to be a struggle. Marie-France Blanco, a former teacher and social worker, has battled since the mid-1980s to find funding for a program for children of prison inmates. Blanco, who was appalled to discover that the children of French prison inmates are often forgotten by the authorities who lock up their parents, could get the help of only her husband, an executive at the French subsidiary of farm-equipment manufacturer Massey-Ferguson, before she decided to create an association. "When I said prison, everyone turned their head," she recalls...
Then a contact referred Blanco to the Van Leer foundation, which agreed to fund her group. She has since expanded to a national federation with 17 regional associations. Thanks to her, several French prisons have facilities for visiting children. After three years of arm twisting, the Fleury-Merogis prison outside Paris last month let her stage the first Father's Day party for kids and their jailed dads. Blanco still has to struggle to raise money. She recently wrote to all 63 companies in her local chamber of commerce. Not one gave a euro...