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...December 1975, Angela and David Boyter went to Haiti for a seven-day vacation and a divorce. A year later, eleven months into their second marriage, the Boyters did the same thing in the Dominican Republic. Since then, the Ellicott City, Md., couple have remarried and been divorced a third time. They figure that their revolving-door matrimony has saved them $15,000. The reason: federal laws that favor single taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service challenged the couple, arguing that the first two divorces were "sham transactions" and that they would not be recognized by Maryland. Last week...
Others remember all too well. Says Sister Corina Padilla, a Dominican missionary nun in Tucson: "This kind of violence isn't unusual. In fact, it's quite normal." Adds Ruben Sandoval, a San Antonio attorney observing the trial: "This is still the kind of place where white supremacy reigns, and others have to fight to survive. This is the wild, wild West...
...guerrilla group. Four other diplomats and two Colombian civilians had been allowed to leave the plane minutes before takeoff; the remaining hostages were to be liberated upon arrival in Cuba, where President Fidel Castro had offered sanctuary to the terrorists. Thus ended the 61-day siege at the Dominican Republic embassy in Colombia's capital, raided during a diplomatic reception on February 27 by terrorists who demanded a $50 million ransom and freedom for hundreds of jailed comrades...
...guerrillas and 16 hostages had left the Dominican embassy at 6:45 a.m., local time, and sped eight miles to the airport in two gray and white Red Cross buses. Escorted to the runway by a Colombian Army Jeep and a yellow airport fire truck, the hostages and their captors slowly filed onto the Cuban plane, which had arrived and refueled about an hour earlier. The guerrillas, wielding semiautomatic weapons, wore masks over their faces and had identification patches stitched to the jackets of their brightly colored sweatsuits...
Shortly before takeoff, the freed Ambassadors of Venezuela, Israel, Egypt and the Dominican Republic descended the steps of the four-engine Soviet-built Ilyushin jetliner and were driven across the airfield in a speeding bus. One of them, Dominican Ambassador Diogenes Mallol, praised Colombian President Julio César Turbay Ayala for handling "this problem with prudence and calm," adding that "only in the beginning were we in danger because the terrorists were very nervous. Then everything calmed down." Another, Venezuelan Ambassador Virgilio Lovera, jubilantly told reporters: "I feel like running a mile in the Olympics...