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...popular mood in Santo Domingo was unmistakably jubilant. Thousands of cheering citizens waved white flags in honor of the victorious Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). They thronged the streets, tooting auto horns and shouting political slogans: "Ya ya Balaguer se va. ¿Que felicidad!" (Balaguer is going. What happiness!). After twelve years in office, the defeated Joaquin Balaguer, now 70 and nearly blind, was departing in favor of Politician-Farmer Antonio Guzmán, 67, a Social Democrat. It was the first time in this century that a freely elected President of the Dominican Republic had succeeded another such freely elected...
...Administration argues that the bill is highly inflationary, will hinder U.S. relations with exporting countries, notably the Philippines and the Dominican Republic, and will fan protectionism in the U.S. The White House estimates that the measure will cost consumers an extra $700 million a year, a figure that Church's supporters and Government sugar experts claim is exaggerated. In any case, the bill is opposed by the Consumer Federation of America as well as candy and soft-drink makers and other big users of sugar; it is supported by the farmers and most of Big Labor...
Even as the early voting returns started trickling in last week, a trend in the presidential balloting was becoming apparent. In his attempt to win an unprecedented fourth term, Dominican Republic President Joaquin Balaguer was slipping further behind his principal challenger, Antonio Guzmán of the Dominican Revolutionary Party. By 4 a.m. on the day after the election, with about one-fourth of the ballots counted, Guzmán was leading...
Pending before the Senate now is an international agreement that would stabilize sugar prices through voluntary limits on exports to the U.S. by foreign producers, chiefly the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. But the Senators, reflecting the anger with the President felt by Congressmen from farm states, are in no mood to support the pact until the Administration establishes a policy ensuring that U.S. sugar producers will not be hurt by foreign competition...
...triumphed in Cuba in 1959, nearly one-quarter of the population could neither read nor write. Compulsory primary education and an ambitious classroom construction program have reduced illiteracy to 4%. Cuban infant mortality is 29 per 1,000 and average life expectancy is 70 years. By contrast, the nearby Dominican Republic has a 32% illiteracy rate, infant mortality of 98 per 1,000 and an average life expectancy of only 58 years...