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...artists' collective now funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, mobilizes painters to create ghetto murals. Last March El Museo del Barrio, a Puerto Rican cultural museum begun in 1969, opened new quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Its first show, "Resurgiemento," included Artist Domingo Garcia, whose work is in the city's Museum of Modern Art collection. Miriam ColÓn, whose Puerto Rican Traveling Theater gives summertime performances in ghetto streets from the back of a flatbed truck, has opened the first Hispanic off-Broadway theater in a recycled West Side firehouse...
...popular mood in Santo Domingo was unmistakably jubilant. Thousands of cheering citizens waved white flags in honor of the victorious Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). They thronged the streets, tooting auto horns and shouting political slogans: "Ya ya Balaguer se va. ¿Que felicidad!" (Balaguer is going. What happiness!). After twelve years in office, the defeated Joaquin Balaguer, now 70 and nearly blind, was departing in favor of Politician-Farmer Antonio Guzmán, 67, a Social Democrat. It was the first time in this century that a freely elected President of the Dominican Republic had succeeded another such freely elected...
...inauguration. Heading the group were Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. But the most important symbolic presence was that of Lieut. General Dennis McAuliffe, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command based in the Panama Canal Zone. He was dispatched to Santo Domingo as a reminder to the Dominican generals, who have little love for Guzmán, that the U.S. supported his election and expected them to do the same...
...spot. Sworn in immediately were three able and fairly young technocrats who will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo, as head of the Central Bank; and Ramón Báez Romano, 49, a onetime Gulf & Western executive, as Industry and Commerce Secretary. Those appointments indicated that Guzmán is determined to improve his nation's economy. He was intent on improving the military as well. After...
With the help of Education for Action, a student organization which funds H-R undergraduates to do social change and cultural action projects, Ana has been able to continue her chosen work. In spite of limited resources the struggle for a unique classroom in San Domingo has succeeded...