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...eager to assert, leftists have been thwarted in El Salvador and the junta headed by José Napoleón Duarte appears stronger. Haig, and indeed White House aides, claim that they deserve more credit for the unglamorous but essential jobs of improving relations with Canada, Mexico and especially Jamaica, whose new moderate government is supposed to serve as a model of economic development for the restive Caribbean...
...recent letter to the Crimson, April 17, 1981. Nathan Glazer suggests that Harvard Law School's Legal Services Institute in Jamaica Plain is a good example of the kind of wasteful government spending which "can be cut without any apparent losses to the poor." He reaches this conclusion by a "simple division" of the amount of federal funds being spent ($500,000) by the number of students (32) at the Institute. Readers of the Crimson would benefit. I think, from knowing some additional facts about this equation...
...Institute provides legal services for the poor in Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, Roslindale, West Roxbury areas of the city which had no legal services at all before the Institute was established. In this area live over forty thousand people eligible for legal aid services, including one-quarter of Boston's elderly poor, one-fifth of its public housing residents, and substantial numbers of its poor Black and Hispanic residents. The $500,000 in federal funds allocated to the Institute goes toward the maintenance of an office and the salaries of a staff of five lawyers, three paralegals, four intake...
...Jamaica Estates...
...More Signals to the World" [Feb. 16], you referred to President Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea as the first ruling foreign visitor to the Reagan Administration. The first was Jamaica's Prime Minister Edward Seaga...