Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent the victory of a revolutionary movement" wrongly judged to be Communist-dominated. President Johnson, said Fulbright, reacted to "exaggerated estimates of Communist influence in the rebel movement," then overreacted by sending in 20,000 troops. To make matters worse, the U.S. then took sides with Brigadier General Antonio Imbert's loyalist junta-"a corrupt and reactionary military oligarchy." Concluded Fulbright: "If we are automatically to oppose any reform movement that Communists adhere to, we are likely to end up opposing every reform movement, making ourselves the prisoners of reactionaries who wish to preserve the status...
...nightmare began Friday before Labor Day, when Boggs and Dixie stopped at a roadside park on U.S. 9 outside Luling, Texas, in a car he had stolen in Houston two days before. Parked near by was a pickup truck belonging to San Antonio Contractor Harold Flory, 50, who was fishing in the San Marcos River. Boggs killed Flory with a hammer, then rifled his pockets, and slipped the body into the river It was found there by a motorist who saw a fishing line running from the river to some bushes, tugged on it and, to his horror, pulled...
...Francisco Caamaño Deñó and five of his rebel lieutenants quietly put their signatures on a document entitled the Dominican Act of Reconciliation. A few hours later, in the Dominican Congressional Palace across town, four other officers, who had supported the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barrera, added their names with equal severity. Thus, without fanfare or even much reconciliation, ended the bloody civil war that began April 24, took the lives of 3,000 Dominicans and 31 U.S. servicemen, and involved the U.S. and other OAS nations in a major military operation...
...Cash. Typically, the end seemed close at hand-and yet not quite within grasp. The bitter hatred between the loyalist forces of General Antonio Imbert Barrera and Colonel Francisco Camaaño Deñó's rebels had hardly diminished. The rebels claimed to want a provisional government; yet rebel youths were taking daily training in street fighting and guerrilla warfare-under the leadership of men of the Castroite 14th-of-June group. Last week Loyalist Imbert's radio was howling at the OAS, issuing scare warnings of imminent violence, insisting that his junta was in fact...
...days later, Ashe did it again-this time at the expense of Mexico's Antonio Palafox, 29. He aced the Mexican twelve times, winning one game on four consecutive perfect serves. Fittingly, Ashe's 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Palafox clinched the zone championship for the U.S. "It was his booming serve," lamented Palafox. "I tried to break his concentration, but I couldn...