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Acosta, a scraggly-bearded senior from the Dominican Republic via the Bronx, lived up to his billing as a master of control in the opener, walking none and nicking corners here and there with his unimpressive-looking fastball-slider repertoire...
...many "combat" assignments a journalist gets, each new one brings its own special dangers, as Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst discovered while reporting for this week's cover story. A veteran correspondent who joined TIME only last month, van Voorst, 46, has covered conflicts in the Dominican Republic, Jordan, Chile and Lebanon, plus the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. But he judges Iran to be his most dangerous territory...
...coffee, Karl Fessler, a jet-hopping high roller, is said to have made them an attractive offer in late 1977. According to the Cuban government, Fessler told its trade representatives that he would sell them 3,000 metric tons of "Barahona," a choice Arabic blend grown in the Dominican Republic, at a bargain price. Reportedly, Fessler and some cohorts produced all the documents attesting to the availability of the coffee, and the deal was clinched last October on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. The Cubans agreed to a price of $1.39 a lb., vs. $1.54 on the world market...
Through an exhausting schedule that took him more than 15,000 miles to the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Bahamas, the Pope proved ever willing to run late in order to make time for people. Near the Guadalajara Cathedral, a crippled teenage girl waited in hopes of meeting John Paul, but he did not see her at first in the press of the crowd. When someone whispered to him about the girl, he whirled around and waded into the mob to find her. He never...
Symbolism is important on papal visits, and John Paul's first stopover was the Dominican Republic, the island where the Catholic evangelization of Latin America began. Here the first missionaries to the Americas recited Mass in 1494 during Columbus' second voyage, and here were built the first cathedral and convent in the Western Hemisphere. At the airport, the white-clad Pontiff knelt to kiss the ground. Unexpectedly, four U.S. Cardinals were there to greet him. After a motorcade he celebrated Mass at the main square of Santo Domingo for a crowd of 300,000 or more...