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Boston police last week released a composite sketch of a man suspected of raping a Jamaica Plain social worker at Harvard's Arnold Arboreturn 10 days...
...first in the series of assaults at the park occurred March 15 when a 28-year-old Jamaica Plain resident was jumped and repeatedly stabbed in broad daylight near the Walter and Bussey St. entrance to the Arboretum...
Many of the island nations in the region also have deep financial woes. Jamaica's G.D.P. fell every year from 1973 to 1980. The country had a trade gap of $237 million in 1980, even though major U.S. companies like Alcoa, Exxon...
Pillsbury and Colgate-Palmolive operate there. Jamaica stands to receive some $50 million from the Reagan program, but that would fall far short of the $687 million that Jamaican planners want to pour into 424 development projects they are now studying...
That hint of danger had not dissuaded the nine Americans, most of them normally sedentary landlubbers, from boarding the sturdy 48-ft. fishing trawler Gabriella in Kingston, Jamaica, and heading into the windswept Caribbean on a stomach-churning 124-mile, 15-hour voyage to U.S.-owned Navassa Island, 30 miles west of Haiti. Unaccountably cheerful through the stormy night, the five-man Jamaican crew and the boat's Kingston owner, Gilbert Thompson ("I couldn't trust the responsibility of this trip to just the crew"), kept the craft on course toward its tiny target: a flat-topped limestone...