Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...sought 1,500 for resettlement. When Governor Robert Ray toured Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand and returned with tales of starving children, offers of aid from lowans flooded the statehouse, the Des Moines Register and churches. The interest was so great that just before Thanksgiving the Governor announced a program called Iowa Shares, an acronym for Iowa Sends Help to Aid Refugees and End Starvation...
Last week the U.N.'s World Food Program announced that it would halt shipments until the present stockpile is cleared. Bloomfield calls the situation "unbelievably tragic." Says he: "If there's no improvement in the next month, we'll be reaching a crisis point...
...Karl Marx were to visit Italy's capital of Rome, he would be undone by what the Romans do under a Communist administration. Communist Mayor Luigi Petroselli, 47, and his Communist predecessor have pushed forward a slum clearance program that has won only the enmity of the city's poor. Instead of being grateful, families that were moved into new apartment buildings in Rome from shantytowns outside the capital complained that they had to pay city taxes and electric bills. Formerly, the shantytown dwellers had obtained free electricity by tapping power lines. They also complained that apartment living...
Among the Communist administration's more popular projects has been a vast open-air entertainment festival, dubbed Roman Summer, that has brought the capital concerts and ballroom dancing in public parks. The program has been singularly successful, so much so that it has tended to show up the Communist regime's failures by comparison. Says a former public health service physician: "In a city where mail remains undelivered, garbage litters the streets, schools are infested with lice, and terror and crime stalk the streets, the only thing the Communists gave us is dancing in the park...
These conditions include basing enrollment in lower-level courses on year in school, as does Fine Arts 13; allowing qualified students to take part in ART shows even if they are not enrolled in acting classes; and freeing students in courses from responsibilities to ART such as writing program notes...