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...trim, well-dressed lawyer from Santiago, Jorge Blanco, 55, advocates a mix of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism to steady the Dominican Republic's badly faltering economy. Like his predecessor, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, he faces an economy burdened with sharply higher oil costs (from $60 million in 1977 to an estimated $600 million this year) and depressed prices for such export commodities as sugar, gold, coffee and ferronickel. Almost half of the Dominican work force is either unemployed or underemployed...
...Portuguese doubtless were relieved that the attack on the Pope at Fátima came not from one of their own but from a visiting Spaniard, Juan Fernández y Krohn, 32. Police investigators soon confirmed that Fernández was, as he had appeared to be, a priest-but an archconservative one. He was ordained at the seminary of Ecône in Switzerland, the traditionalist bastion of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a diehard opponent of the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially its modernization of the 16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however...
...pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback on his (or her) language will tend to speak not of feminists but of fern-libbers. People with only limited commitments to environmental preservation will tend similarly to allude not to environmentalists but to eco-freaks...
...Dwyer Lichstein, Siegeistein, Smith, 2. Cunngham, Home Sackaroff Friedman 28-Philips 28-Waish Jackovic 2. Friedman, Home Sackaroff. WP. Romero 2 Dwyer 4 Smith 3 PB-Fern...
McDougall has led that potent offense in the last two seasons as the center on the Huskies' top line. Last year, coach Fern Flaman was blessed with the nation's most productive trio in McDougall (39 points), right wing Gerry Cowie (47 pts.) and left wing Sandy Beadle (59 pts.). Beadle is gone now having skipped his senior year to turn pro. but he's been replaced by an able sophomore. Brian Fahringer, and the big line is cruising at about last year's pace (with 36 goals in 17 games...