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MARRIED. William Colby, 64, often embattled director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Nixon and Ford; and Sally Shelton, 40, former U.S. envoy to the West Indian islands of Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent; both for the second time; in a ceremony performed by the mayor of Venice, Italy...
...island, Rear Admiral Ralph Hedges, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, paid tribute to the 19 servicemen who died in last year's momentous rescue mission. In the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, some 450 local citizens and dignitaries heard Father Cyril Lamontagne of St. Lucia thank the Lord, who, he said, "stretched forth his mighty hand to bring us back from the mouth of hell." On the main campus of the St. George's University School of Medicine, where the presence of some 600 American students had provided the rationale...
...visit to several Caribbean schools offers little that would contradict the arguments of critics. Most operate on shoe string budgets and breakneck schedules, cramming a semester's work into four or five weeks. The aptly named Spartan Health Sciences University on St. Lucia has only two full-time professors. The physiology and biochemistry departments occupy one room, separated from the hallway by a beaded rope curtain. The microbiology laboratory consists of a few rough wooden tables. Students are advised to bring their own microscopes...
...Spartan school looks luxurious compared with the St. Lucia School of Medicine, opened with great fanfare last September by Edward Antar, owner of a New York discount electronics chain called Crazy Eddie's. "They had nothing," says Cornelius Lubin, an official in St. Lucia's Ministry of Health. "No labs, no cadavers." The school quietly closed in March. Closed less quietly was the Centre de Investigacion y Formacion Social. CIFAS was one of two Dominican medical schools shut down in May as part of the local government's effort to clear the rep utation of its university...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Marilyn Alva/ St. Lucia and Bernard Diederich/ Santo Domingo