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...like to go into some area of public service work, but I'm not sure exactly what," said Andrea Fastenberg '86, who will spend next year working with street children in the Dominican Republicon a Rockefeller Fellowship...
After 92% of the ballots had been tallied, conservative former President Joaquin Balaguer, 78, held a slender 35,000-vote lead over Jacobo Majluta, 51, the candidate of the ruling Dominican Revolutionary Party. Then, without explanation, the counters stopped counting. At that point Majluta suddenly declared himself the victor and demanded that two of the three board members be replaced by alternates for allegedly disqualifying thousands of his supporters. Balaguer and the third-place candidate Juan Bosch promptly protested that the two replacements favored Majluta. Later, Balaguer and Majluta agreed to seek the selection of an entirely new board...
...government of the neighboring Dominican Republic paid the President $2 million a year to provide Haitian laborers for the annual sugarcane harvest. The first post-Duvalier government vowed to confiscate the dictator's fortune, but did nothing. It also promised to return the $2 million kickback received this year to Santo Domingo...
...Saturday, the capital was tense but calm. There were reports of demonstrations in Cap Haitien, the second largest city, and the Dominican Republic, which lies east of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, was nervously monitoring the volatile situation. While Duvalier was still in Haiti, there were serious questions about whether the President-for-Life would be President for long...
...book is drawn from 23 hours of interviews Castro gave last May to Friar Betto, 41, born Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo. The author, a Dominican brother in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a leftist churchman who served four years in a Brazilian prison for sheltering anti-government guerrillas. He embraces liberation theology, which offers theological support for resisting political and economic oppression and is usually based on Marxist analysis...