Word: domingo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting, held in the small stucco home of a Bosch supporter outside Santo Domingo, was set up by Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, who has long insisted on the need to "broaden the middle and eliminate the sharp differences between the right and left." Both Bosch and Balaguer seemed intent on doing that...
...were the election returns in than Bosch followers began crying fraud, and Bosch himself announced that his party would challenge the results "at every point where there appears to have been fraud." In Bosch's behalf-but clearly without his blessing -snipers began taking potshots in downtown Santo Domingo, and leftist and Communist troublemakers took to the streets, jeering "A gigantic fraud," throwing rocks, and scattering leaflets that called for a "massive fight in the streets." "Balaguer," glared one young tough, "might be elected, but he will never rule this city...
...Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. It is election eve, but most of the attention is focused elsewhere#151;just about every radio in the city is tuned to the broadcast of a baseball game at Crosley Field in the U.S.A., where Juan Marichal is pitching against the Cincinnati Reds. The game is very tense. "If Juan were running for President," a voter sighs, "it would be a landslide." It might, and at least one poiltician knows it. Presidential Candidate Joaquin Balaguer has Juan's cousin, also named Juan Marichal, as a running mate on his ticket...
...Young World tries to speak about the restless spirit of modern youth in timely catchwords. A fille de frug wearing topless finery is whisked aloft at a wild students' ball in Paris. Sean Connery appears briefly, creating instant Bondomania. The troubles in Viet Nam and Santo Domingo are touched upon. Finally, Hero Nino Castelnuovo, as a young Italian making the Paris scene, comes right out with it: "Don't you feel a new world is in the making...
...often prefers "order to reform" in Latin America. This is too generous. In the Dominican Republic at least, the U.S. has been, and continues to be, willing to foresake everything even order, to avoid reform. A Balaguer victory would mean chaos. The April revolution would recommence in Santo Domingo, and perhaps elsewhere. The democratic parties--the PRD and the PRSC--would be thrown into turmoil by an agony of conscience. What has all this to do with "order...