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Following by air from Spain the approximate route that Explorer Christopher Columbus sailed almost half a millennium ago, Pope John Paul II last week traveled to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. His mission: to launch eight years of "spiritual preparations" to commemorate the Christianization of the Americas that began with Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492. The Pontiff used the occasion to issue a thinly veiled denunciation of U.S. and Soviet bloc intrusion in Caribbean and Latin American affairs. He urged listeners to resist "interferences of foreign powers which follow their own economic bloc...
SUCH A SCHEME is utopian at best and liberal reformism at its worst. Divestment misses the point. What will happen when these cumulative divestments do (in a hypothetical world) take place? Will the money invested in South Africa go into companies that oppress workers in Chile of the Dominican Republic or here at home...
...years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet Nam in 1967 to preside over what he hoped would be the winding down of American involvement, Bunker did finally see the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1973 after four years of " Viet-namization." Sometimes known in diplomatic circles as "the Refrigerator...
...America can thousands of working-class people go on their days off and drink beer and wave pennants and watch a baseball game." Nowhere but in America-and Japan and South Korea and the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and so what? Let her feel patriotic when she watches the Dodgers play ball. The Olympic torch had nothing to do with patriotism either; indeed, it is a symbol of supranationalism. But as the torch zigzagged among them from east to west this summer, people waved flags, cried and sang America the Beautiful...
...notions of arranging huge barter trade deals, like selling 5,000 swine to the Dominican Republic. Its expertise has not been as much in demand as was hoped, and few deals have come off. Last year the subsidiary lost $12 million. About 150 of its 1,000 employees were laid off in early August...