Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four thousand troops were sent into the midst of a pro-Bosch revolution in the Dominican Republic "to protect American lives" Friday...
...poured thousands upon thousands of airborne units and Marines into a country where revolution had broken out against a military dictatorship and in favor of restoring the constitutional non-Communist government of Juan Bosch. After four days of hesitation, the U.S. deliberately sided with a group of generals who had distinguished themselves by their virulent insistence that the whole revolution was Communist-inspired...
...with machine guns ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years under Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Even after his assassination in 1961, the military held the real power-partly out of habit, partly because there was no civilian strong enough to run the country. In 1963 the generals ousted President Juan Bosch in favor of a civilian triumvirate that was expected to serve as a front. To all intents and purposes, the civilian leadership has now been reduced to Donny Reid, and in the past 15 months he has proved to be nobody...
Last week the Queen journeyed from Soestdijk Palace to the little Huis Ten Bosch Palace outside The Hague to consult with the leaders of The Netherlands' fiercely independent factions on how to put together a new government. After interrupting her talks for a visit to the dentist, she finally picked Catholic Parliamentarian Norbert Schmelzer, 43, as her informaleur-the man who, under Dutch practice, is empowered to look for the man who might be able to form a new Cabinet. Forming Marijnen's own coalition Cabinet in 1963 took 70 days of agonized negotiation in jealously pluralistic little...
...master who painted the book is unknown, but he had the sharp eye of a jeweler. Details only 1/32 of an inch are revealed by a magnifying glass as ducks floating on a pond. He portrays hell's horrors with shrieking, Bosch-like surrealism, but more divine images receive less than medieval veneration. Christ's birth and infancy are treated with the tenderness of an uncle. The artist took his greatest liberties in the borders of his illuminations. There he imitates a grape arbor's lattice in textiles and lacework, borders a saint with pretzels that were...