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It wasn't a total loss for the Crimson, however, for the Cornell thrashing provided some hard-won experience for upcoming battles with Wellesley and Yale. "You learn a lot because they are such excellent fencers," Leonidas said.
Some critics accused Balaguer of trying to establish a dictatorship, as had his mentor, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who ruled for 31 years until his assassination in 1961. "He runs the country like a Florentine court," said a banker, implying that he is all too remote from the island's...
The re-election crisis reflects the deeply ingrained Dominican worry about continuismo-the Latin American habit of hanging on to power. Just a year ago, Balaguer was publicly pooh-poohing questions about a second term, saying that "only a plebiscite of gigantic proportions" could make him run again. But more...
Shortly after Chilean Airlines flight 87 took off from Santiago on a routine flight to Puerto Montt with 56 passengers, two young men ordered Captain Leonidas Medina at gunpoint to fly north to Havana. During a refueling stop, the twin-jet Caravelle's port engine failed, and the hijackers...
Now the I.C.O. is moving even more directly against the heart of coffee's problem: oversupply. Brazil, the big gest producer, has taken the lead. It grows enough coffee each year to sup ply two-thirds of the world's needs, has enough surplus in storage to supply...