Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Juan and Carmencita Rodriguez, who left Cuba in 1969, are reasonably typical. They settled in New Jersey, where Carmencita had a sister. Juan, 49, a former storekeeper, got a job in an embroidery shop by saying that he could cut lace left-handed. In fact he is right-handed and had never cut lace. Carmencita, 47, a former teacher, worked in a handbag factory and cut insignia for uniforms on a piecework basis at home. "See this finger, see the callus I still have on it," she says proudly. The couple saved enough money to open two gift shops...
...wide as a tennis court and as long as a football field. Along one end are tiers of metal drawers, jam-packed with filing cards. Each card represents a file that is not there because there is not enough room. These absent files have been sent to New Jersey, but 25,000 of them are hauled back every year. Near the door stand rows of shopping carts full of files in transit...
...families, charging negligence, collected $4.2 million from diocesan insurers. Eleven pending civil suits ask a total of more than $100 million. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles also faces claims over Father David Roemer, who pleaded no contest in three cases of child molesting in 1981. But a New Jersey family whose son killed himself after he was allegedly molested by a Franciscan brother had its suit thrown out. The victim was a participant in youth ministries, and a state law exempts organizations like the Archdiocese of Newark from damage suits by those who use and benefit from its services...
...already taken action. After a 1983 scandal involving Father Thomas Laughlin, the Portland archdiocese reminded its personnel of state laws requiring that signs of suspected child abuse be reported. The archdiocese also set up a special panel to evaluate complaints. According to guidelines issued last month for all New Jersey dioceses, reports of abuse are to be referred immediately to state authorities and diocesan officials, an accused priest is to be removed from contact with children until the case is cleared up, and families and children are to be offered church counseling...
...series, Trudeau depicted Sinatra as a vulgar-mouthed pal of mobsters, undeserving of the Medal of Freedom recently given him by Reagan. The most debated strip quoted a citation that accompanied an honorary degree Sinatra received last month from New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology. The final panel carried a mid-1960s photo of Sinatra with Aniello Dellacroce, who was described as an "alleged human . . . later charged with the murder of Gambino Family Member Charley Calise...