Word: casa
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NADINE GOODMAN 39, MEXICO: Social worker Master's degree in hand, Goodman moved to San Miguel de Allende in 1981 to learn Spanish. Once there, the American saw a desperate need among local teenagers for sex education and health care. With a $7,000 grant she founded CASA, a counseling center and maternity hospital. Today its staff of 100, including 60 peer counselors who distribute birth control to surrounding villages, serves 50,000 people a year. Says Goodman: "It's important that these women have access to family planning, can build self-esteem and get the care they deserve...
Johnnie Cochran denied a report that O.J. Simpson had planned to wed his girlfriend, Paula Barbieri, next Sunday in the Dominican Republic. Listin Diario, a newspaper in the Dominican Republic, said Simpson was preparing to fly to the Caribbean country for a ceremony at the Casa de Campo, the exclusive resort where singer Michael Jackson secretly married Lisa Marie Presley last year. But Cochran today said that Simpson was at his California home. Reporters staked out a Dominican airport in vain on Sunday, but the rumored aircraft never materialized. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict
Wellington recently left a position as the legal affairs coordinator at Casa Myrna Vasquez, the largest battered women's shelter in New England. Fluent in Spanish, Wellington worked at the Cardinal Cushing Center for Spanish-Speaking People in the South End of Boston...
...next morning, the quiet ended. Several cars pulled up to Su Casa, and 10 men in plain clothes, three or four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands...
...million reward promised by the U.S. government and advertised on posters, videos and even matchbooks, ``the snitch,'' said intelligence sources, ``tells the R.S.O. Yousef has just got back from Bangkok, and he's getting ready to leave for Peshawar.'' After Yousef was apprehended at the Su Casa Guest House, he was bundled on to a military 707 jet and flown to Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York. He made the quick flight into Manhattan on a Port Authority Sikorsky S-76A, finally returning to the scene of his most infamous exploit and the site of his arraignment and future trial...