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...purpose of Amnesty International is to free people who have been jailed for their consciously held religious, moral or political beliefs," says Pamela White, the 27-year-old Boston area director for Amnesty. She adds that candidates for Amnesty sponsorship must never have advocated violence or participated in espionage...
This does not mean that all of the country's 23,000 nursing homes are bad. A number of them scattered throughout the country are, by any standards, excellent. Others provide their patients with at least good, competent care. They come in all sizes, under highly diverse sponsorship. Members of Southern California's Japanese community need have no qualms about placing their parents in Los Angeles' Keiro (which translates as Home for Respected Elders), a 184-bed facility that bespeaks the Oriental tradition that old age should be a time of ease. Keiro's appeal ranges...
...next stop is one of three military bases in the U.S., where they wait for sponsorship in America. At one of those bases, Southern California's sprawling Camp Pendleton, Marines have thrown up a vast tent city amid the tough green scrub and yellow-mustard weeds. The Marines, who displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark...
...Department of Labor notified the City of Cambridge earlier this year that the position of Cambridge as a prime sponsor in the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Program is in jeopardy because the Cambridge population does not meet the $100,000 minimum required for sponsorship. As a prime sponsor. Cambridge now manages a $7 million suburban division of the program...
...Epsilon Phi and its sister sorority, Delta Zeta, held a "showerthon"-during which students took showers for 360 straight hours in an especially rigged bathtub on the street-and raised more than $1,500 for the American Cancer Society. At the University of Kansas, the Interfraternity Council has assumed sponsorship of the semiannual campus blood drive...