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...neighboring Dominican Republic paid the President $2 million a year to provide Haitian laborers for the annual sugarcane harvest. The first post-Duvalier government vowed to confiscate the dictator's fortune, but did nothing. It also promised to return the $2 million kickback received this year to Santo Domingo...
...During a four-hour, 15-minute visit to the capital, she spent 20 minutes with President de la Madrid at his official Los Pinos residence. Later Mrs. Reagan drove to the residential complex of Tlatelolco, where a 13- story apartment building had collapsed. She commiserated with Spanish Tenor Placido Domingo, who had come to Mexico City to discover the whereabouts of relatives believed to be buried in the ruins of the building...
...south coast 40 miles from Santo Domingo, San Pedro began work on its two main export crops, sugar and baseball talent, more or less simultaneously. At the turn of the century, the game was cultivated by newly arrived American owners of the sugar mills, who sponsored company teams in local competition. The mill workers were good players, in part, it is said, because wielding machetes in the cane fields had strengthened their arms. Ensuing years of team rivalry and the 1916-24 occupation by U.S. Marines helped make America's national pastime San Pedro's major social activity...
...Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid % more than $130 a week has managed to send for four of her six children. "I lived on 150 pesos ($48) a month in Santo Domingo," she says. "This is paradise. I am working. I am earning money. I am driving. I am buying things I want. My priority is for the children...
...City is America's melting pot. Today, local planning officials estimate, 2.1 million of the city's 7.1 million residents are from overseas, some 30%, a larger proportion than at any time since the 1940s. There are more Dominicans (an estimated 350,000) than in any city but Santo Domingo, more Haitians (225,000) than anywhere but Port au Prince, more Greeks (100,000) than anywhere but Athens. New York has more Jamaicans (275,000), Russians (100,000) and Chinese (200,000), it seems sure, than any city outside Jamaica, the U.S.S.R., China and Taiwan. Los Angeles and Miami have...