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Some reputable outside observers think criticism of the Mengistu regime has been exaggerated. One of them is Father Thomas Fitzpatrick, director of Caritas International, the Rome-based Catholic emergency-aid organization. "There was not massive corruption or diversion during the 1984 famine," says Fitzpatrick, an American who supervised Catholic aid in Ethiopia at the time. "There weren't distribution foul-ups to the extent that has been reported. It's true that some ships were backed up in the harbors. True, it rained once unexpectedly, and some grain was exposed and began to rot. But no more than...
...many people watching stock prices plunge last week, that sense of security dissolved. "I feel a lot poorer today," sighed Bee Fitzpatrick, a New Orleans mother of two. Even if the market recovers some ground over the next few weeks, many people will still be uneasy about the future after seeing how far and how fast stocks can fall. As Columnist Robert Reno of Newsday, a New York newspaper, put it, "Nobody who has been on a falling elevator and survived ever again approaches such a conveyance without a fundamentally reduced degree of confidence...
Third Period--6, N, Marge Sanford (Rosa, Fitzgerald) 1:14; 7, N, Fitzpatrick (Woolley, Koyanna) 9:31; 8, N, Rice (Cardinale, Lucy Goodwin) 11:12 Penalties--N, Woolley (holding) 3:20; N, Rosa (checking...
...easy enough to pick out the ringers, the professionals, in the choir. In the instant before she sings, Carole FitzPatrick, the lead soprano, sits forward and seems to assemble herself into a musical instrument, spine straightening, chest swelling, head lifting and tilting back. When the volunteers mumble through the first reading, she growls, sotto voce, "Come on, girls, sing!" "I was singing," comes the lament. The volunteers regroup to one side of their leader, for strength in numbers. They start to open up and "honk it," as FitzPatrick indelicately urges on the third...
...Carole FitzPatrick takes an equal and opposite delight in mingling with normal lives; it held her together last year when she was stretched thin earning a master's degree from the Yale School of Music. "Sometimes it's wonderful to be up there with these people who've never had a voice lesson," ( she says, "all of us singing those great words together, all our hearts directed in the same...