Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winner of player of the week honors. But Andy Puopolo was more than a football player. More even than a serious student who planned to attend medical school in the fall. He was the epitome of devotion, to his family, to his friends, and to his home community of Jamaica Plain...
...TRYING to make amends. The school committee has long been a source of strident racism and fiscal irresponsibility; the city spends over $3000 per student each year to provide a grossly inadequate education. District elections will grant representation to previously ignored neighborhoods such as the South End, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. By reducing the committee-person's constituency from over 600,000 to 40,000, representatives will be held more accountable. Budget restraints and strengthened powers for the superintendent are prerequisites for greater efficiency...
...Puopolo's roommates said yesterday that although Puopolo's family life meant more to him than anything else, he was a well-rounded individual with a wide range of friends in Jamaica Plain, where he grew up, in the North End and in the Harvard community...
Political chaos was made worse by Jamaica's economic disorder, for which Manley has to shoulder some of the blame. For the past two years he has been committed to what he calls "democratic socialism"−meaning buying into the island's huge bauxite industry and lavish doses of public spending on labor-intensive road building and land reform...
Case of Jitters. Manley's new policy directions, as well as his undisguised admiration for Fidel Castro, have given Jamaica's small and relatively conservative middle class a bad case of the jitters. Many Jamaican business families have established second residences abroad. Income from tourism has dropped from $120 million in 1975 to an expected $90 million this year as a result of the violence; bauxite and sugar exports, two of the country's other major foreign-exchange earners, suffer from shrunken international markets. The upshot is that Jamaica faces a staggering $1 billion national debt. Inflation...