Word: dominican
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...febrile, highly contagious viral disease with a 99% mortality rate, it was initially recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths...
...month earlier, 55 people died in similar riots in the Dominican Republic. Crushed by a $2.5 billion foreign debt and a 1983 trade deficit of $460 million, the government in Santo Domingo was negotiating the second stage of a three-year program of loans totaling about $400 million. Unwisely, it put into effect many of the fund's prescriptions without warning. Over Easter weekend, it shifted the exchange rate on all imports (except petroleum) from one peso per dollar to a free-market rate of 2.5 per dollar. When Dominicans woke up Monday morning, they discovered that many prices...
...head off further violence, Dominican President Salvador Jorge Blanco subsequently suspended negotiations with the IMF. The need for credit, however, remains as great as ever. Last week Hugo Guiliani Cury, the Secretary of State for Finance, told TIME that the talks would be resumed. "We never said we would not make the adjustments that the IMF asked for," he explained. "The bone of contention was velocity. If we had gone ahead with more immediate austerity measures, it could have meant the end of our 20-year-old attempt at democracy...
...electronics chain called Crazy Eddie's. "They had nothing," says Cornelius Lubin, an official in St. Lucia's Ministry of Health. "No labs, no cadavers." The school quietly closed in March. Closed less quietly was the Centre de Investigacion y Formacion Social. CIFAS was one of two Dominican medical schools shut down in May as part of the local government's effort to clear the rep utation of its university system. Only last April, Rector Quisqueya Rivas Jerez was still insisting that "this is no diploma factory." She has since been arrested and accused of falsifying documents...
...Latin debt crisis took another turn at week's end when the Dominican Republic broke off talks with the International Monetary Fund. The move jeopardized the Caribbean nation's ability to renegotiate its $2.4 billion in foreign debt, because lenders have insisted that it first reach agreement on an austerity program with the IMF. But Dominican leaders, fearful that IMF demands for a sharp hike in gasoline prices would spark a new round of violent protests, decided to quit the talks...