Word: dominica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's not how things are done," said DominicA. Nwasike, professor of history and a member ofthe search committee, about Counter's refusal ofthe offer. "I'm sure that he had accepted theoffer." Nwasike added that he was skeptical aboutthe "distinction" Counter made between acceptingcandidacy and accepting...
MARRIED. William Colby, 64, often embattled director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Nixon and Ford; and Sally Shelton, 40, former U.S. envoy to the West Indian islands of Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent; both for the second time; in a ceremony performed by the mayor of Venice, Italy...
...Inwood, Iowa, former head of the Reformed Church in America, and the Rev. John Bluck, a New Zealand theology professor. Castro becomes the fourth man to occupy the top W.C.C. post since the organization was established in 1948. He will succeed Philip Potter, 62, a Methodist minister from Dominica. A dynamic preacher, Potter has ardently espoused liberation theology, which finds scriptural justification for those who rebel-even violently-against oppressive social and political systems...
...into graduate schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been turning to the Caribbean, where in the past half-dozen years 16 profit-making educational enterprises have flourished on the islands of Montserrat, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Dominican Republic...
...certainly unaccustomed to military force. Until now, the eastern Caribbean islands have generally done without armies. St. Kitts-Nevis established a defense force in 1967, but found it to be so expensive and unproductive that nearly 14 years later it converted all its soldiers to policemen and firemen. Dominica disbanded its military force in 1981 after many key officers were implicated in a failed coup attempt. Indeed, with the exception of Antigua and Barbados, the islands have been guarded mainly by policemen since they began to win independence from Britain in the 1960s. "They had no form of transportation...