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Only a few days earlier, a similar drama had been enacted in the Caribbean skies. A Venezuelan Aeropostal airliner, en route from Caracas to Curaçao with 87 passengers and crew aboard, was hijacked by self-proclaimed Haitian Rebel Hilertaut Dominique and his Dominican accomplice Felix Segundo Castillo. Armed with gasoline and pistols, the two forced the pilot to fly the plane first to Trinidad, then to Aruba, and finally to Cura...
...never dream of doing: he gave away the program to friends, associates and anyone else who wanted it. Within days, CompuServe, a nationwide computer-services network, made MacTEP available to its 135,000 subscribers. Brothers started getting calls about his creation from as far away as Britain and the Dominican Republic. Says he: "It seemed such a simple little program at the time. It never occurred to me to sell...
...febrile, highly contagious viral disease with a 99% mortality rate, it was initially recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths...
...month earlier, 55 people died in similar riots in the Dominican Republic. Crushed by a $2.5 billion foreign debt and a 1983 trade deficit of $460 million, the government in Santo Domingo was negotiating the second stage of a three-year program of loans totaling about $400 million. Unwisely, it put into effect many of the fund's prescriptions without warning. Over Easter weekend, it shifted the exchange rate on all imports (except petroleum) from one peso per dollar to a free-market rate of 2.5 per dollar. When Dominicans woke up Monday morning, they discovered that many prices...
...head off further violence, Dominican President Salvador Jorge Blanco subsequently suspended negotiations with the IMF. The need for credit, however, remains as great as ever. Last week Hugo Guiliani Cury, the Secretary of State for Finance, told TIME that the talks would be resumed. "We never said we would not make the adjustments that the IMF asked for," he explained. "The bone of contention was velocity. If we had gone ahead with more immediate austerity measures, it could have meant the end of our 20-year-old attempt at democracy...