Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinner, in one more demonstration of a President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican Republic's continuing unrest, was ordered back to Santo Domingo on the double at the briefing's end. The Kennedys slept the night in the La Fortaleza palace, and next morning the President rose early for breakfast with Munoz Marin. He got a realistic political briefing from...
...three weeks a power struggle had raged over who should inherit the fiefdom of slain Dictator Rafael Trujillo. With so much passion involved, it was surprisingly bloodless. But so long as it was unresolved, the prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
...surprising (for a country in which compromise politics has been absent for a generation) settlement vindicates the United States' decision to send its fleet into extra-territorial waters near the Dominican Republic at the moment when the Generalissimo's brothers appeared to be attempting a coup. One cannot be sure what Balaguer had in mind when he asked for U.S. support (other than the desire to stay in power); his recent action indicated a preference for the company of military leaders that might bring military dictatorship to the country. Certainly, one can doubt the sincerity of Balaguer's promises...
...question of U.S. intervention, which Fidel Castro has of course seized upon, is not really very significant. The fact is that the legal government of the Dominican Republic requested a U.S. show of support, and to have refused, particularly after our declaration opposing the re-establishment of the Trujillo dynasty, would have opened the door to even more violence and bloodshed than was in evidence in the Dominicans' joyful, if tumultuous, farewell to the Trujillos...
...little easier. Certainly the Administration must give every possible aid to any regime which is truly representative. The U.S. cannot relax, however, for it will be many months, and probably years, before a stable, progressive regime can be established--if ever. In time, with a spirit of compromise among Dominican politicians, and a tolerance in the U.S. of a government which may not always be to its liking, real representative democracy may come to the Dominicans, and the stain of Trujillo removed from politics--as his name has been removed from their capital city...