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Your article "A Hungry Mob" [WORLD, May 7] states that because the Dominican Republic is a democracy and has no leftist guerrilla threat, Reagan praised its stability and offered no more than the $135.7 million U.S. aid package already approved for this year. Actually, as a result of discussions during Dominican Republic President Jorge Blanco's state visit, the U.S. Government agreed to provide additional help to the Dominican Republic over and above the $112.2 million that was planned for this year. At the time of the President's departure, these new commitments brought the total level...
...once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been turning to the Caribbean, where in the past half-dozen years 16 profit-making educational enterprises have flourished on the islands of Montserrat, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Dominican Republic...
...examinations administered to Caribbean students have been tainted by widespread cheating. Last summer, 9,000 foreign-trained students had to retake tests that allow them to practice in the U.S. because nearly half had seen the questions beforehand. Then in December, U.S. investigators cracked a ring of American and Dominican officials selling bogus diplomas (up to $27,000 for an M.D.). The trail led to two of the Dominican Republic's most successful universities. Last month the schools were closed, their administrators jailed and all student transcripts seized. The action stranded about 900 U.S. students, some of whom were...
...electronics chain called Crazy Eddie's. "They had nothing," says Cornelius Lubin, an official in St. Lucia's Ministry of Health. "No labs, no cadavers." The school quietly closed in March. Closed less quietly was the Centre de Investigacion y Formacion Social. CIFAS was one of two Dominican medical schools shut down in May as part of the local government's effort to clear the rep utation of its university system. Only last April, Rector Quisqueya Rivas Jerez was still insisting that "this is no diploma factory." She has since been arrested and accused of falsifying documents...
...Latin debt crisis took another turn at week's end when the Dominican Republic broke off talks with the International Monetary Fund. The move jeopardized the Caribbean nation's ability to renegotiate its $2.4 billion in foreign debt, because lenders have insisted that it first reach agreement on an austerity program with the IMF. But Dominican leaders, fearful that IMF demands for a sharp hike in gasoline prices would spark a new round of violent protests, decided to quit the talks...