Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany-notably Dominican Yves Congar-have started to think out a "theology of the laity," based on the Pauline doctrine of the "priesthood of the faithful." Sensing the temper of the times, such farsighted prelates as Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger and Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing have established diocesan advisory councils of laymen...
intervened drastically in the internal affairs of several insolvent Caribbean republics. Three countries were actually occupied and ruled by the U.S. Marines for long stretches of time: the Dominican Republic from 1916 to 1924, Haiti from 1915 to 1934, and Nicaragua almost continually from...
Many Latin American leaders would welcome, either openly or secretly, just such U.S. action against Cuba. Most of Castro's closest Caribbean neighbors-Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic-have quietly informed the U.S. that they would back a U.S. invasion. Says Peru's Victor Andres Belaunde, former President of the U.N. General Assembly: "The presence of Russian troops in Cuba demands decisive action on the part of the U.S. I don't think Latin reaction to the U.S. action against Cuba will be unfavorable...
...getting excited. "I hope this will be a lesson to Truman," he wrote in a column that was killed by Hearst. "I wasn't shocked, I wasn't horrified, and I believe that most of those who said they were were liars." Pegler preferred the late Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo to most of the world's statesmen: "Trujillo is much more sensible, practical and helpful to his people than Roosevelt. Truman or Eisenhower has been to ours...
...strident Radio Habana Cuba fills the hemisphere's airwaves with Communist propaganda in an effort to stir a rebellion here, provoke a riot there, create chaos everywhere. Last week one of his neighbors had had enough. In Washington, Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Bonilla Atiles of the Dominican Republic went before the Council of the Organization of American States to lodge an official protest that Radio Habana was "attempting to destroy−by inciting to riot and murder−our beginning democracy...