Word: dominican
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...been the Socialists' emphasis on Latin America and what the government calls the "historic Hispanic link." Accordingly, González has paid increasing attention to strife-torn Central America, where his views diverge sharply from those of the Reagan Administration. During an eight-day tour of the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Mexico earlier this month, Gonzalez repeatedly criticized U.S. policy in the area for what he regards as its overly military-oriented approach...
...concocted at least eight plots, none ever carried out, to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro, as well as a bizarre scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 and a failed attempt on the life of Premier Patrice Lumumba of the Congo. The pro-Soviet Lumumba was killed in 1961, a year after the CIA attempt, by rivals acting on their...
...from the jungle-this is the Dominican Republic now-comes the ball on the fly to home plate. Into the woods runs our scout, and there was this kid, José González-" Lasorda presents a strapping 6-ft. 2-in. outfielder whose uniform number, 77, signals that he is a farm hand. "Just 18 years old!" Lasorda exclaims. "See, we grow our own." It is a fact that the Dodgers have provided the National League's past four Rookies of the Year, and the candidate of the moment is Brock, who on the strength of 17 major...
DIED. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 56, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Gulf & Western Industries; of a heart attack; on a company jet en route from the Dominican Republic. Bluhdorn arrived in the U.S. from Vienna at 16 and in 1955 bought into the small Michigan Bumper Corp., which he merged and muscled into a huge conglomerate (auto parts to movies to zinc) with 1982 sales of $5.3 billion. "Sometimes I'm full of baloney," the blunt Bluhdorn once said. "But sometimes I have a good idea...
...example, he refers to the "stunning confirmation" of some of his theories in the work of Imperato-McGinley. In this work, it was found that genetically male individuals from the Dominican Republic who were born with a hormone deficiency and were, therefore, raised as girls, at puberty assumed male roles. However, he fails to point out that a group of individuals with exactly the same syndrome raised in the United States, also as girls, at puberty retained their female gender identity! If anything, this is "stunning confirmation" of the powerful effect of the social and cultural environment in influencing human...