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...Alert. Since then, Wessin y Wessin had kept out of sight at San Isidro, silent and brooding. Then last week Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy bowed to the rebels with a decree abolishing Wessin y Wessin's command. That brought the general to life. The San Isidro airbase radio crack led with bitter charges of Communist influence on Garcia-Godoy: "Again, we are on the alert!" The threat of renewed fighting sent waves of panic through Santo Domingo. Both the OAS and the U.S. agreed that Wessin y Wessin...
Under the agreement, the loyalist and rebel sides accepted a provisional government headed by Dominican Diplomat Hector García-Godoy, who will serve until elections are held in six to nine months. Both sides received a general amnesty and in turn promised to put their troops under the command of the provisional President. The provisional government was also to "begin negotiations at once" with the OAS for the withdrawal of the 12,000-member peace-keeping force-mostly U.S.-still in the Dominican Republic...
...turn of the century, European taste makers found themselves caught up in the snaky tendrils of a self-conscious style called art nouveau. Not only candlesticks and furniture, but whole buildings were designed to flow with floral grace. From the Paris Métro stations of Hector Guimard to the décor of Maxim's, symmetry was out, organic flow was in, and nothing from the insect or aquatic world was too exotic. La Belle Époque lasted little more than a couple of decades (1880-1905), but in that brief span produced a series of small masterpieces...
...rightfielder answered to Arturo. A guy named Doc was behind the plate. The cleanup batter called himself Hector, and his claim to fame was that he once led the league in grounding into double plays. The whole squad was hitting .212. The program said they were the New York Yankees, winners of five straight American League pennants and 2-1 favorites to make it six in a row. Baltimore Coach Billy Hunter knew better; after all, he used to play shortstop for New York. "Yankees?" snorted Hunter. "They look like the Toledo Mud Hens...
...Clark, who is quoted as having found it "gigantically laughable." Well, maybe. But unlike Candy, the bestselling pornographic novel that passes itself off as a satire on pornography, Drive, He Said is serious as all get out. Most of its fun is unintentional. Thus, in one chapter, Basketball Player Hector Bloom and his chick Olive spend a busy evening nuzzling each other outside a diner, are chased over hill and dale by a Cadillac jammed with knife-wielding apists (strangely, they seem to be baddies), make passionate love to celebrate their escape. Then Hector, "in his last thought before...