Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very little to decrease unemployment. Illegal aliens and migrants almost always work at jobs that American citizens are unwilling to take. This fall, for example, the state of Vermont contacted unemployed residents and encouraged them to work as apple-pickers--jobs traditionally filled by migrant workers from the Dominican Republic. Responses were almost uniformly negative. As one man put it. "There's no way I'm gonna work for under $8 an hour...
...practical details of their attack. Within 24 hours, they released one of their hostages, a pregnant embassy employee. They also decided to allow the Bern police to deliver packages of food, medicine and newspapers to the embassy's doorstep, and agreed to talk to a Polish-born Dominican priest, Josef Bochenski, 80. After intensive negotiations, which were led by Swiss Justice Minister Kurt Furgler, the gunmen agreed to a 48-hour extension of their deadline and to the release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt...
DIED. Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández, 71, moderately leftist, U.S.-backed President of the Dominican Republic since 1978, who improved health services, schools and rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an accident but rumored to have been suicide prompted by despondency over a threatened investigation of government corruption); in Santo Domingo. Elected despite an army attempt to block the counting of ballots, Guzmán planned to give up his office next month, after becoming the first elected President...
When his plane landed at 4:40 a.m. last Tuesday, he was met by Dominican authorities and informed, much to his surprise, that his papers were not in order. Detained in the airport's international zone, Wilson was told just minutes before takeoff that he was being placed on Dominicana Airlines flight 902 to New York City, leaving at 9 a.m.; when the fugitive explained that he did not have a visa for the U.S., the local officials told him not to worry, he would probably be welcomed anyway. Wilson boarded the plane, as did two U.S. marshals. When...
...marshals' performance last week required both daring and diplomacy. Although top law-enforcement officials in Switzerland and Spain were notified about Wilson's journey, airport officials at Zurich and Madrid were not told the true identity of McCormick. High-ranking Dominican police officials were briefed on the plan, and cooperated fully at the airport. Since Wilson was never officially admitted to the Dominican Republic, he did not need to be extradited. One top U.S. law-enforcement official said of the delicate operation: "If at any time Wilson had turned left instead of right, it would have ruined...