Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost one fourth of the students on board here will participate in a fast tonight to support agricultural development in the drought-stricken islands of Cape Verde, the fast's organizer said yesterday...
...University Food Services will donate 95 cents for each of the 1423 fasters to the American Committee for Cape Verde (TCHUBA), Elario R. Monteiro '79, the student organizer, said...
...Harvard initiative is "very encouraging" because student interest in world food problems has waned in the past year, he said, adding that "malnutrition is the core problem" in Cape Verde...
...remaining Yankees--the Sargents and the Saltonstalls--fare no better, as their isolated indifference and calculated impotence is attacked. Lupo sees the Yankees as content to control the city through its finances, operating from plush State Street bank offices, escaping to North Shore farmhouses and summer homes on the Cape. In one of the more effective vignettes in the book, Lupo juxtaposes a Republican-sponsored cocktail party in placid Dover with the frantic, non-stop efforts of Kevin White to cool the city down...
Inevitably, the wave of claims has stirred up anti-Indian hostility. "We are bitter," says George Benway, chairman of the selectmen of Mashpee, Mass., one besieged town on Cape Cod. In a combative spirit sardonically known as "whitelash," the Town of Mashpee has filed a countersuit against the Wampanoag tribe -demanding $200 million as the cost of all accrued improvements'if the Wampanoags should win their claim to much of the town's property...