Word: dominican
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Your article "A Hungry Mob" [WORLD, May 7] states that because the Dominican Republic is a democracy and has no leftist guerrilla threat, Reagan praised its stability and offered no more than the $135.7 million U.S. aid package already approved for this year. Actually, as a result of discussions during Dominican Republic President Jorge Blanco's state visit, the U.S. Government agreed to provide additional help to the Dominican Republic over and above the $112.2 million that was planned for this year. At the time of the President's departure, these new commitments brought the total level...
...once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been turning to the Caribbean, where in the past half-dozen years 16 profit-making educational enterprises have flourished on the islands of Montserrat, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Dominican Republic...
...examinations administered to Caribbean students have been tainted by widespread cheating. Last summer, 9,000 foreign-trained students had to retake tests that allow them to practice in the U.S. because nearly half had seen the questions beforehand. Then in December, U.S. investigators cracked a ring of American and Dominican officials selling bogus diplomas (up to $27,000 for an M.D.). The trail led to two of the Dominican Republic's most successful universities. Last month the schools were closed, their administrators jailed and all student transcripts seized. The action stranded about 900 U.S. students, some of whom were...
Some exhibitions were disappointing no-shows. An early boast that Jacques Cousteau would make his own watery contribution did not turn out to be true. Belize, Honduras and the Dominican Republic were planning a rain forest that has not yet fully emerged from the mists. Nor should visitors expect the sort of vast enterprise undertaken at the World's Fairs in Montreal (1967) and in Osaka (1970). This is officially a World Exposition, on the scale of the one in Knoxville, Tenn., two years ago. Alongside that effort, New Orleans can hold its candle proudly, and with a raffish...
...always been tough. Now it is also touchier than ever. Although the IMF makes loans to rescue troubled economies, it is stirring up anger and defiance in developing countries of Latin America, Asia and Africa. In some places, the controversy has been boiling over into violence. In the Dominican Republic, most union leaders are insisting that the country break off relations with the IMF, blaming its policies for causing riots last month that left more than 50 people dead. Leftists around the world accuse the IMF of trying to impose capitalist values, and Finance Ministers in developing countries frequently protest...