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...authors of the 1984 pastoral letter, an articulate participant in the Washington conference, and an organizer of the papal address to blacks. In his Washington speech last year, he reached back to his roots "as a young boy in Mississippi with the double -- I was going to say handicap, but I'll say blessing -- of being black and Catholic." His mother was from Biloxi, and his father, a baker, moved there from Puerto Rico. The young Marino grew up in a cultural and religious tradition derived from the early Catholic French and Spanish settlers, and he still lights up when...
John Shattuck, vice president for government,community, and public affairs, was unavailable forcomment yesterday. In the past, he has saidsimilar efforts are a dangerous handicap toscientific research and a threat to constitutionalrights...
...left the service with no disabling wounds. Dole too was decorated in World War II, but the war left him crippled. He spent three years in hellish convalescence, moving from one hospital to another, without therapy for so long that the injury to his right arm became a disfiguring handicap...
...keep making film for the cameras, photo experts believe Kodak is ditching the disc design for good. Sales of the cameras, while brisk at first, slumped to fewer than 2 million last year. The disc's fatal flaw is its minuscule negatives, which tend to produce grainy snapshots. That handicap has become even more glaring with the arrival of simple and inexpensive 35-mm cameras...
...Arab village of Al-Joura, Sheik Yasin has been paralyzed below the neck since age 15 as the result of an athletic accident. He resides with his wife and eleven children in a one-story house in Gaza City. Family members assist him in dressing and eating. Despite his handicap, he runs al-Mujama al- Islami, a community organization that builds mosques and sponsors cultural activities...