Word: dominican
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Throughout Central America and the Caribbean, governments are benefiting from a remarkable spirit of generosity on the part of oil-rich Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC and, with 2.2 million bbl. per day, currently the second largest producer in the cartel. In the Dominican Republic, Venezuelan money is helping to finance the construction of a $64 million hydroelectric project, housing, and a $2.3 million alcohol distillery. The tiny island state of St. Lucia (pop. 120,000) has opened a $400,000 asphalt plant, courtesy of Caracas. In Panama, officials are planning to erect a $100 million bridge to span...
...York City this week published a study called Induced Abortion: A World Review, 1981, by Dr. Christopher Tietze, the pre-eminent expert on international abortion. Among its findings: 9% of the world's 4.4 billion people live in countries that totally forbid abortion (among them: Spain, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia); 38% live in nations where abortion on request is allowed, at least in the first trimester of pregnancy; the rest live under laws that allow abortions under conditions that range from saving the mother's life to economic hardship. In the past 15 years, 17 countries (including...
...Iran, Guatemala and Chile, thus earning for America the hatred of freedom-loving people in those countries and elsewhere. Why should we fan anti-Soviet paranoia by implying that only they commit "brazen and brutal" aggression, as in Afghanistan. In recent years the U.S. has intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and in Viet Nam to impose governments favorable to us. We do not need a renewed imperialist image but a people-loving image...
...nine-year old band, which traveled to the Dominican Republic in 1974 in a similar tour for the Association for Blind Children, hopes to raise approximately $10,000 for AFS, Everett said...
Juan Liado, chairman of AFS's Dominican Republic chapter and coordinator of the 1974 visit, invited the band to return because of the first tour's success. AFS officials in New York were not available for comment...