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Considering the island's ugly history (see box), it is a wonder that the Dominican Republic's leftists did not make their move long before. The tinder for revolution has been building for generations, and in the unstable years after Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican military has...
Exporters blame the trouble on the government's Brazilian Coffee Institute (I. B.C.), a complex clearinghouse that handles Brazil's coffee dealings. A recent official investigation uncovered a string of "irregularities" in I.B.C.'s hiring practices, promotional spending and coffee purchasing. The new president, appointed when the...
Last week he became Prisoner 983 in a small provincial lockup in Evreux, a town of 30,000 on the fringes of Normandy, 60 miles from Paris. His shoelaces, necktie, belt and wristwatch have been taken away; his only companions are a pimp and a chicken thief, and he spends...
In the three years since Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was assassinated, the Dominican Republic has been governed by one interim President (forced to resign), one seven-man provisional Council (which held elections), one constitutional President (toppled by military coup), and one civilian triumvirate of which not a single original member...
Act Instead of Talk. Donny Reid, as Dominicans call him, got into politics as a plotter against Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and as vice president in the Council that ruled after Trujillo's assassination in 1961. Reid has no official political party ties, took no direct part in Bosch...