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Dynamite used by the F.A.L.N. has been traced to thefts from construction sites in Colorado and New Mexico. But José says that Cuba and sympathizers in the Dominican Republic have also supplied the independence movement's guns and explosives-though not its funds. Beyond contributions from rich radicals and occasional fund-raising rallies, the revolutionaries finance their operations by robbing banks and smuggling drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Forecast: More Bombs Ahead | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...American negotiators-voluble, persuasive Lawyer Sol Linowitz, 63, former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and icy-calm Ellsworth Bunker, at 83 a veteran of crises from the Dominican Republic to Viet Nam-admit they are temporarily stymied on the question of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: New Deals for the Big Ditch | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...peak of his rambunctious form, Chairman Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western Industries, one of the world's biggest conglomerates (1976 sales: $3.4 billion), is a curiously compulsive monologuist. Whether lolling with a weekend visitor by a sleepy lagoon outside his luxurious beach house, La Favorita, in the Dominican Republic or lecturing to an awed audience in his company's baronial headquarters suite overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blues for Mr. Charlie | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...Dominican Father Luigi Ciappi, 67, who has been Paul's personal theologian since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Red Hat for the Right-Hand Man | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...Geneva is exploring ways to establish a floor and ceiling price for sugar, but U.S. experts give it only a fifty-fifty chance of success. The obvious way to push prices back up is to cut production, but that is difficult for nations such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic, which depend on sugar for most of their foreign-currency earnings. Meanwhile, the U.S. sugar industry faces another threat: the growing use by commercial food processors of high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener that is cheaper than sugar even at present prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Sticky Slump | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

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