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Many supporters had feared that Sen. William"Biff" MacLean (D-Fairhaven), chair of theCommittee on Bills, would block the committee'spassage of the bill to the Senate floor until thelegislative session ended. MacLean's predecessor,Sen. Arthur J. Lewis (D-Jamaica Plains), was astaunch opponent of gay rights legislation andsuccessfully killed a similar bill with suchmethods two years...
...people in the Dominican Republic, then spread destruction from Florida to Canada. Hugo was the fiercest storm to strike the U.S. East Coast since then. Last year, almost to the week, Gilbert, a maximum Category 5 hurricane with 175-m.p.h. winds, had howled along a more westerly course, pounding Jamaica before stomping into Mexico and the U.S. Gulf Coast...
With 242 of the 252 precincts reporting, 10-term incumbent Albert O'Neill, a conservative from Roslindale, leads the tally with 20,505 votes, or 17.1 percent of the total. Fifteen-term incumbent Chris Iannella, a liberal from Jamaica Plains, was the second-place finisher with 15.7 percent of the vote, according to the Election Commission...
...actually got a grant to hang out on the beaches of Jamaica and participate in the local culture...
...there must be something else driving a man to run ten miles a day in the Texas heat, fight in backwater towns and suffer reporters' ridicule. Perhaps it is the memories, some to be relished, others to be expunged: the glory of Jamaica, where he hammered Smokin' Joe for the title in '73. Then, the next year, the nightmare of Africa at 4 in the morning, and the specter of Ali in the ropes, taunting him with a whisper, "Is that all you got, George?" before knocking him out in the eighth. Says his friend Norm Henry, a California fight...