So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/
I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but one could use
this to convert from DOC (or anything else OOo can import) to ODT and
then use writer2latex to convert ODT to LaTeX.
rh
