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...overtime winner. Princeton would not be shaken, however, and it captured the National Invitational title in Ottawa last weekend. The Tigers advanced to the title game with a 5-1 pasting of Ottawa, then defeated Merrimack in a shootout after a 1-1 tie through regulation and overtime. Goaltender Erasmo Saltarelli had 41 saves for Princeton, which improves its record...
Later the members of Brazil's National Congress (which Geisel had closed for two weeks in 1977) applauded Carter after he made another endorsement of human rights. Federal Deputy Erasmo Martins Pedro, leader of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement, hailed Carter's views as "a response to the most profound demands of ethical consciousness and not of political conveniences dictated by the international situation...
...Street, the inscription says: Diós bendiga nuestro hogar (God Bless our Home). On each side of the inscription there is a tiny enameled flag, Dominican on the left, American on the right. Near by is a name plate that says: Familia Ortega. In the five rooms inside live Erasmo Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also a three-year-old orphaned nephew whom they are raising. Also about eight other children (it is hard to keep count) who don't quite live there but sort of romp...
...children, says Eloina, that they left the Dominican Republic. "The political situation at home was bad. The people were treated bad. We asked ourselves, 'How can we earn enough to feed ourselves? How can we raise our children?' " Erasmo was the first to emigrate, sponsored by a sister. He got a job washing dishes for $75 a week, paid his sister $10 for room and board, and saved the rest. In three years he had enough to send for Eloina, and she got a job as a sewing-machine operator. In another three years they sent for their four oldest...
...height of their earning powers, Erasmo made $160 a week as a dishwasher, and Eloina $140 on the sewing machine ("We didn't save anything, but we got by"), and then Erasmo injured his back while carting pans around the restaurant. He underwent an operation three years ago but has never fully recovered. Today he works as a part-time handyman and gets $229 a month in welfare payments...