Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Committee members Lawrence J. Roman '78 called the stethoscopes "a gift of peace and friendship...
...Roman Catholicism's religious orders prize their independence, especially when it comes to writing the constitutions that govern their lives. Thus it was no routine matter last week when the Vatican confirmed that it is usurping this traditional prerogative and writing a new constitution for the Discalced* Carmelite nuns...
...arrest on charges of drunk driving would be embarrassing for any solid citizen, but for Roman Catholic Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, the experience was downright sobering. The churchman was picked up in February when his Chevrolet brushed against the side of a store. After a blood-alcohol test administered by police showed a reading of .19%, nearly double the .10% level that Minnesota law defines as intoxication, the archbishop was invited to spend the night in the county jail. Recalled Sheriff Dave Ninnemann: "He was a model prisoner...
SENTENCED. Jack Elder, 41, Roman Catholic activist director of a shelter in San Benito, Texas, that provides sanctuary to illegal Central American refugees; to 150 days in a halfway house, after being convicted in February of transporting Salvadorans who illegally entered the country and of conspiracy; in Brownsville, Texas. Elder, facing a maximum of 30 years, refused an offer of two years' probation if he would end his activities and public support for the sanctuary movement. The judge imposed a light jail sentence, he said, because "I admire your motivation...
...Sandinistas see it, the evacuation has other advantages: it could boost agricultural production while giving Managua greater control over some of Nicaragua's subsistence farmers. In a speech last month, Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock Roman noted that while independent peasant farmers worked 48% of the nation's farmland to produce 26% of the crops, large cooperatives using only 24% of the land grew 49% of the harvest. Each of the new camps is attached either to a collective farm or to a privately owned cooperative, where some of the refugees have been given work...