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...eight Americans were greeted at Santo Domingo's Las Americas Airport by a smiling host who guided them effortlessly through customs and on to the posh El Embajador Hotel for cocktails and a sumptuous dinner. Next morning the visitors were shuttled to the country's thriving new tourist attraction: the Palace of Justice. By noontime they were divorced from their spouses back home. The cost: about $500 in legal expenses, plus air fare and the price of an overnight stay...
...Santo Domingo was slower getting into the quickie divorce business, primarily because of opposition from the church, feminist groups and the press; President Joaquin Balaguer vetoed the original bill. But once leading legislators were assured of a share of the legal business, the measure was passed in June over Balaguer's veto. Already, Haiti has been forced to reduce its price to compete with its neighbor's figure. The package fee, which varies somewhat depending on the case, is divided among the stateside lawyer, the Caribbean lawyer, and government agencies including the court...
...LUIS RODRÍGUEZ VILLANCAÑAS Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
...later he made his operatic debut in Traviata with Mexico's National Opera. That same year he sang opposite Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Dallas Civic Opera. Then came an offer from the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv. Nearly 300 performances later, Rudel signed Domingo and gave him the title role in Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the February 1966 opening of the company's new home in Lincoln Center. Domingo...
...understand the opera until he accepts the fact that vocalism -good vocalism, that is-is the coagulant that binds everything and everybody together: fantasy and truth, performers and audience, hero and heroine. Says Domingo: "The voice must say I love you. Love for a heroine or hatred for a villain must be portrayed through the public." Domingo has the voice. He is acquiring a public ready and willing to jostle its way into the opera any night he chooses to sing...