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...Abstainers. As the election date neared, Balaguer looked more and more like a winner. His four rivals were unable to unite; the two strongest-right-wing ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin and conservative Vice President Francisco Augusto Lora-lagged far behind. The man who would have proved Balaguer's strongest opponent, ex-President Juan Bosch, was abstaining from participation in the election, and so was his Dominican Revolutionary Party, the country's largest political party. Explained Bosch, a Utopian with a strong emotional following among the poor who was overthrown by the military...
...been able to do is leave the presidency. Early in his term, he changed the constitution to permit reelection. As it became clear that he planned to take advantage of the change, his opposition polarized. The wondrously wide-gauged group that served the ultimatum includes Vice President Francisco Lora, who quit Balaguer's Reformist Party over the re-election issue; ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin, the rightist soldier who tried unsuccessfully to crush the 1965 revolution, and the P.R.D. (Dominican Revolutionary Party), which started it. The leftist, urban-oriented P.R.D., Balaguer's chief opposition...
...anti-establishment "Constitutionalists" during the 1965 civil war, is reportedly holed up in Cuba or The Netherlands. Balaguer also will have opposition within his own middle-of-the-road Reformista Party, which is split between his supporters and those who favor the election of Vice President Francisco Lora next time around...
...plot is thin. It's about this female, Lora, played by a well-developed Italian girl named Isabel Sarli, who has the sexiest way of standing over her husband and her love after she has left them at the bottom of a hole. The men have spent most of the film digging--looking for water they say. In fact they spent so much time digging it that a kid sitting behind me left halfway through, groaning under his breath, "that's just one shovel-full too many...
...After Lora leaves the two men to die, she goes to the city where she becomes a hardened prostitute. But a hole in the ceiling of her working-room (like the hole her lover and husband were digging, get it?) reminds her of her misdeed and she can't be a good prostitute. Her madam often casts scowering looks at Lora, and tells her to "work like the other girls or get out." A whorehouse, very obviously, is not a home...