Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow sense, U.S. troops were there merely to protect some 2,400 terrified U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals after U.S. Ambassador William Tapley Bennett Jr. had informed Washington that Dominican authorities wanted U.S. help, that they could no longer guarantee the safety of American lives. In a much larger sense, the troops were there quite simply to prevent another Cuba in the Caribbean. What had happened, in its baldest terms, was an attempt by highly trained Castro-Communist agitators and their followers to turn an abortive comeback by a deposed Dominican President into a "war of national liberation...
...Collective Madness." For a time, it did seem about over. Deciding that they were licked, most of the leaders of the army revolt trooped into the U.S. embassy, asked U.S. Ambassador Tapley Bennett to arrange a ceasefire. He called Wessin y Wessin, who immediately agreed. Fearing reprisals, dozens of rebels, including Acting President Molina, fled to political asylum in foreign embassies. A junta composed of pro-Wessin y Wessin officers was sworn in as a provisional government...
...remaining Americans and other nationals drew rebel gunfire. Snipers opened up on the Marine company dug in around the embassy; the leathernecks fired back, killing four rebels. The Salvadoran embassy was sacked and burned; shots spattered into the Mexican, Peruvian and Ecuadorian embassies. "This is collective madness," U.S. Ambassador Bennett told newsmen. "I don't know where we go from here...
...pass, then swooshed off to the north and escaped in the mist. One Thunderchief took 20-mm. cannon hits in its hydraulic system, the other in its engine. Both limped some 20 miles until they got over the Gulf of Tonkin, where the pilots bailed out. Major Frank E. Bennett drowned, and, after a 48-hour search, Captain James A. Magnusson was listed as missing...
Cabot will be succeeded by State Street President George Bennett, a longtime friend. He expects to stay active in his private investment practice after retirement. A lifetime of dealing in big sums has scarcely affected Paul Cabot's personal indifference to material things. A group of his financier friends once took up a collection to replace the frayed shirts he wore to board meetings...