Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week, in the little town of Sosúa (pop. 10,000) on the Dominican north coast. Dr. Alejo Martinez, 32, a physician, answered a knock on his door. Submachine guns chattered, and Martinez fell dead on the porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio...
...Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying "Liberty! Down with dictatorship!" Another crowd started pegging rocks at police, were finally dispersed when the cops fired over their heads...
...beachboat Dumpling had been built in Napoleon's day; the Fleetwood fishing trawler Jacinta, to the horror of the troops that sailed home in her hold, stank to the skies of cod; the destroyer Harvester, built on contract for Brazil, had all its gunnery instructions in Portuguese; a Dominican friar skippered the armed yacht Gulzar...
...detailed U.S. proposal was sent to the 19 Latin American nations (all save the Dominican Republic) that are scheduled to participate in the alliance. That aid is needed, all are agreed. The question is how much. Many Latin Americans fear that even the generous U.S. commitment will not be enough to achieve its high goals, particularly the aim to raise the per capita income by 2.5% a year. Such a feat, they say, could only be accomplished by pouring in $3 billion-perhaps $6 billion -worth of U.S. aid each year...
...reference to Trujillo's plot to murder Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt. The OAS team also noted charges that police repressions continued even after the old dictator was dead. Conclusion: "It would be premature to determine the depth of change in the character and policy of the Dominican Republic...