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...coordinate 15 hours of classes with a ten-day sail that includes calls at Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco. Cost: $1,995. Prefer your silicon seminars on terra firma? For $879, Club Med provides Atari computers along with white-sand beaches and pina coladas at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic...
...square in front of the newly restored Royal Palace. Elderly Poles dressed for Mass prayed fervently or chatted in hushed tones about the Pope's imminent arrival. About 20 university students from Poznan who had slept overnight on the floor of a Dominican cloister strummed guitars and sang religious and folk songs. Entire families huddled in the windows of nearby buildings that were decorated with white-and-red Polish flags, yellow-and-white papal pennants and portraits of the Pope and the Black Madonna. As John Paul rode past in the white Popemobile that had been brought from Rome...
...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...