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Student support for changing the scholarship's name continues to mount. The Law School's Third World Coalition yesterday signed the seventh protest letter, to be delivered to the K-School later this week. The coalition consists of representatives from Black, Hispanic, Arab, Asian, American Indian and Puerto Rican law student organizations...
Lovett, reached last night at his hotel in San Juan, said he was having a "great time" in 86-degree Puerto Rican weather, and planned to go scuba diving today...
...emphasizing the fact that Blacks do not compromise the majority of welfare recipients in America. A journalist who has spent much of his time in South American challenges the role of the multinational corporations in the exploitation of labor in the South American countries. Another student, a puerto Rican woman, adds that in America the system is set up to play minority groups off against one another, citing competition between Puerto Ricans and recently immigrated Cubans. Another students voices the need to correct "a theology that makes oppression okay." No twelfth-century monks these...
While in office, Manley experimented with what he calls a "third path" in the Caribbean. The political setup of the region gives a government two basic choices: the "Puerto Rican" model with virtually complete economic dependence on the United States and the Cuban example of reliance on Soviet support. Manley sought to place Jamaica somewhere between these two poles. He and the PNP set out to develop a mixed economy with an emphasis on socialist techniques within the framework of Jamaica's democratic political system Meanwhile, he pursued a vigorous foreign policy in concert with the burgeoning non alignment movement...
...Central American pilgrimage, John Paul offered his personal presence, his example, his courage. His words were those of comfort, hope, peace ? and on occasion rebuke. Some received his message with joy. Others rejected it with bitterness. But all, if only for a moment, stopped to listen. Said Costa Rican Archbishop Roman Arrieta Villalobos: "I think the word of the Pope is something indescribable, a force that I cannot explain in human terms. He is a man without armed legions, without cannons or machine guns. His force is the truth...