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Meanwhile, the contra political leadership remains sharply divided between moderates headed by Alfredo Cesar, who is willing to continue talks with Managua, and hard-liners led by Adolfo Calero. Delegates to the contra governing assembly began a three-day meeting in the Dominican Republic last weekend to attempt to resolve the split by electing a new directorate...
...military government. Hours earlier, soldiers had driven up to the palace and fired bursts of gunfire into the air while Namphy seized control. Five miles away, other troops surrounded the home of President Leslie Manigat, who promptly surrendered and was flown with his family into exile in the Dominican Republic. Thus Manigat's civilian rule, which had begun just 130 days earlier as an electoral sham, ended as a military farce...
...Dominican zealot Girolamo Savonarola who presided over the Bonfire of the Vanities during Carnival in Florence in 1497. Thousands of the Florentine children who were Savonarola's followers went through the city collecting what they deemed to be lewd books, as well as pictures, lutes, playing cards, mirrors and other vanities, and piled them in the great Piazza della Signoria of Florence. The pyramid of offending objects rose 60 feet high, and went up in flames. One year later Savonarola had a political quarrel with Pope Alexander VI, was excommunicated, tried and hanged. His body was burned at the stake...
...mark of the era that no one puts lighthearted cartoons about the players on the back of the cards anymore, like "Bob enjoys playing guitar in the off-season" or "Jesus once served 18 months in the Dominican Army," Topps used to be masterful at these cartoons. This year, they and Donruss put the player's contract status on the back...
Cohen: We had active voodoo priest advisors all through the making of the picture both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And I would say that if they did not like what we were doing, we would not have been able to complete the movie...