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...ailing, but strom Thurmond holds the title for political longevity. His challenger, Joaquin Balaguer--92, blind and frail--lost his bid for an eighth term as President of the Dominican Republic last week. A fair fight...
...lift the fear of deportation from the estimated 6 million illegal immigrants now in the U.S. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has virtually stopped raiding businesses to look for undocumented workers. "It is much easier to find work now than ever before," says Josefina Diaz, a native of the Dominican Republic who cleans offices in midtown Manhattan. "It doesn't matter if you have a green card...
...elections approach. The stories that emerge from refugees sound like they have emerged from a war zone. Some refugees who had been involved with the electoral campaign said that they had received death threats. "We were in misery," said Francisco Martinez, a Haitian whose parents were from the Dominican Republic, to the New York Times last week. "The chiefs in Haiti are killing people. They burn down houses...
...Major leaguers who hail from the Dominican Republic, the most from any country besides...
Before Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers arrived in Miami to see him last week, Cuban Americans confronted the nun at whose home the meeting would take place. They demanded that Jeanne O'Laughlin, a Dominican sister and president of Miami's Barry University, prove there were no trapdoors in her house from which agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service could jump out to seize the boy. Then when the grandmothers landed in Miami, their Cuban handlers kept them on the tarmac for an hour to deliver words of warning. Beware, they told the 51-year-old matriarchs: Miami's Cuban...