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Grassroots projects in Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Colombia, India, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Nicaragua and Sri Lanka are among the many funded by ODN's various chapters. An ODN branch at Yale University sponsored a cooperative bakery in Tangwena, Zimbabwe and one at the University of Utah helped finance construction of a well in a small Bolivian town. During the past three years, ODN has sponsored a total of 15 such programs...
...Dominican Theologian Kevin O'Rourke, director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University, declared at the CHA conference that since the 16th century, Catholic thinkers have allowed withholding of life support in some cases. O'Rourke and others cite a 1957 speech in which Pope Pius XII said , that life-sustaining methods are morally required only when they "do not involve any grave burdens for oneself or another...
...said of Haiti these days is that the worst has not come to pass. The country has not lapsed into civil war. The Tonton Macoutes, President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier's brutal secret police, have not resurfaced, contrary to widespread rumors that they were regrouping in the Dominican Republic. The shaky rule of the National Council of Government continues under the uninspired leadership of Lieut. General Henri Namphy, but the oft-predicted coup has not materialized. One year after Duvalier and his family fled to exile in France, Haiti continues to limp toward democracy...
This year Harvard defeated Duke, the Universityof Southern Alabama, Minnesota, Akron, UNPHU fromthe Dominican Republic, and the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. However, the defendingchampion, Rhode Island College, beat Harvard...
...changes and featured entire bands in matching polyester, bell- bottom leisure suits," wrote Critic Enrique Fernandez in the Village Voice. But newly rediscovered merengue stars like Fernandito Villalona not only could sing on the sound track of Miami Vice but have the wardrobe for a guest shot as well. "Dominican bands look sharp," Fernandez points out. "Merengueros are image conscious. They've learned the lesson...