Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tired is my middle name," says Carol Rohder, 41, a single mother of three in Joliet, Ill. She works days as a medical technician and four nights a week as a waitress. "I'm exhausted all the time. I didn't think it would be this hard on my own. I thought once I was divorced the pressure would...
Sound like a feminist tract? In fact, those observations come from the first draft of a major policy statement on women by American bishops. The 164-page paper, Partners in the Mystery of Redemption, was written by a panel of six bishops chaired by Joseph Imesch of Joliet, Ill., with the assistance of five scholars and two staffers -- all women. The text was released last week for reactions, after being unanimously approved by the U.S. hierarchy's 50-member administrative board...
...years. But Father Lawrence Martin Jenco managed to perform the necessary rituals with distinction last week as he made his way homeward after 564 days of captivity in Lebanon. His journey took him from Syria to West Germany, then Rome, London and Washington, and finally Chicago and suburban Joliet, Ill. "Chicago is a windy city, and I want to feel that wind again," he declared soon after his arrival at the big U.S. air base at Rhein-Main in Frankfurt, West Germany. At week's end, before heading home to Joliet, he met in the Oval Office with President Reagan...
...Pope, to London for a meeting with Archbishop Runcie and on to Washington to see Reagan. He also carried messages for the families of the remaining hostages, he said, though these were not so much letters as "messages from the heart." On Saturday he was due to reach Joliet at last, for a celebration and a reunion with some 45 more family members...
...Joliet, Jenco's relatives greeted his call from Damascus with tears of joy. Earlier, the family had posted a sign outside that read FATHER MARTIN JENCO, AMERICAN HELD HOSTAGE IN LEBANON. Last Saturday the sign was changed to read RELEASED AFTER 564 DAYS. AMEN...