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...feeling lousy," grumbled Coach Hector ("Toe") Blake, as his Montreal Canadiens were preparing for a Stanley Cup playoff game against the Detroit Red Wings. "I get these chest pains right here," he said, stabbing his chest with a finger. "But I've been to a doctor, and he says it's not physical. So I guess it must be mental...
...HECTOR G. SOSA...
...last time the Dominican Republic's right-wing army and leftist rebels tried to exterminate each other, President Hector Garcia-Godoy managed to stop them only by ordering the leaders of both sides to accept diplomatic assignments abroad. That was only a month ago, but last week they were at it again. The latest excuse was that Armed Forces Chief Francisco Rivera Caminero, who was to have been shipped off to Washington, simply refused to go. His transfer, the nation's top officers warned Godoy, would impair national security...
...twelve leftist rebel leaders had flown off to their new "diplomatic" posts abroad, as ordered by President Hector Garcia-Godoy. And all last week Dominicans waited for the country's right-wing military leaders to follow suit. And waited. And waited. And waited...
...Presidential Orders. The troops -two battalions of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and two brigades of Latin American soldiers-moved into the downtown area last week on the specific orders of Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy. In the previous two weeks, at least 15 Dominicans had been killed amid a series of bitter clashes between loyalist Dominican troops and Castroite rebels, who had refused to surrender their arms. Now the OAS would oversee the disarming...